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Bone by bone, Iraqis unearth a mass grave: 'We will be out there digging until no one is left'
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Mass graves are all too familiar in Iraq. Even before the rise of Islamic State, Iraqi authorities struggled to cope with the task of excavating mass burials from the reign of Saddam Hussein, when up to a million Iraqis disappeared.
But recent discoveries underscore the savagery of Islamic State. In Al Houd 118 people went missing under two years of the jihadists’ rule. Two of them were Hasan’s relatives.
As the Iraqi-led coalition advances into Mosul, residents returning home have grown impatient with government officials responsible for investigating mass graves and are starting themselves, sometimes with deadly results.
Continued: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-iraq-mass-graves-20170311-story.html
Saddam and his family certainly did their own damage to the country but some would say, that is what is needed in places like Iraq.
