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Picture: poor iraqis digging for what? -- Anonymous - (156 Byte) 2003-5-15 周四, 上午2:42 (330 reads) |
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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
2 Mass Graves in Iraq May Hold 15,000 Bodies
Associated Press
Wednesday, May 14, 2003; Page A19
LONDON, May 13 -- More mass graves have been found at two new sites in Iraq, containing at least 4,000 bodies and perhaps as many as 15,000, human rights groups and a British news report said today.
If forensic experts confirm the findings, the mass graves at Hilla and the village of Muhammad Sakran would be the largest uncovered since Saddam Hussein's government collapsed in the U.S.-led war.
Residents using tractors and, later, their hands, excavated bodies this week from graves in the central Iraqi town of Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad.
In a news release today, New York-based Human Rights Watch said the United States had known about the Hilla site since early May, when the mayor of the city asked for help in guarding the graves and U.S. forces refused.
"The U.S. government has not acted on important information about mass graves in Iraq," said Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch in Baghdad.
"The result is desperate families trying to dig up the site themselves -- disturbing the evidence for forensic experts who could professionally establish the identities of the victims."
The British Broadcasting Corp., which showed television footage of the grisly scene, said that at least 3,000 bodies were exhumed. It quoted unidentified human rights groups as saying that the graves could contain 10,000 to 15,000 bodies. Human Rights Watch did not confirm estimates of the number of people buried there.
The BBC said it did not know how or when the victims in the Hilla graves were killed, but said they could have been Shiite Muslims massacred by Iraqi forces after a Shiite uprising against Hussein after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Another grave containing more than 1,000 bodies was recently found in Muhammad Sakran village, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said.
?2003 The Washington Post Company
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