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KurdistanObserver.com
Kurds Announce Discovery Of Mass Grave
Sulaimani, (Southern Kurdistan), Jan 21, 2006 (AFP)
Kurdish authorities announced Saturday that a mass grave dating from the time of
Saddam Hussein had been unearthed in the course of routine road repair.
"The drivers of bulldozers came across four human remains near Chamchamal,
100 kilometers (60 miles)) south of the Kurdish city of Suleimaniyah, and we
decided to halt all further work," said Lieutenant Colonel Mahdi Mohammed Ali,
the local police chief.
"We are keeping an eye on the site while waiting for the arrival of
specialized teams from the human rights department" of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan, the party administering Suleimaniyah province.
"The area was used by members of Saddam Hussein's security services to screen
those entering and leaving Kurdistan after 1991," he said, referring to the time
after which the north became increasingly outside the countrol of the central
government.
"We think that Saddam's people, who manned the post until the fall of the
regime, were responsible for many kidnappings and executions," he said.
Numerous mass graves of Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south have been
discovered since the fall of Saddam's regime in 2003. |
