01 December, 2016

Another Mass Grave Dug by ISIS in Iraq, and a Ghastly Ritual Renewed - The New York Times

Another Mass Grave Dug by ISIS in Iraq, and a Ghastly Ritual Renewed - The New York Times: "For Iraqis, the pain of not knowing can be the worst of all. The International Commission on Missing Persons, a Netherlands-based organization, has estimated that up to a million Iraqis have gone missing in recent history. That encompasses the war between Iran and Iraq, the mass killings ordered by Mr. Hussein after a Shiite uprising in 1991, the Iraqi government’s Anfal chemical-weapon strikes against the Kurds in the late 1980s, and the more recent sectarian civil war of the last decade.

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