I recently blogged about mass graves in Iraq—the country that Canada’s liberal-left wish was still being led by Saddam Hussein—in which at least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people killed by the Saddam Hussein regime have been found since the American invasion two years ago.
Here’s another mass grave story:
NEAR SAMAWA, Iraq (Reuters) – Investigators have uncovered a mass grave in southern Iraq containing as many as 1,500 bodies, most of them thought to be Kurds forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1980s.
The site, near the town of Samawa, about 180 miles south of Baghdad, consists of 18 shallow trenches dug by earth-moving vehicles into hard limestone rock.Most of the victims were women and children who were apparently lined up in front of the pits and shot with AK-47 assault rifles, according to a U.S. investigator.
Around 110 bodies have been excavated from the site so far, nearly two thirds of them children and teenagers.
They are being forensically examined and evidence gathered will be used to build cases against Saddam Hussein and his top deputies for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.[…] It is one of around 300 suspected mass graves that have been discovered around Iraq since Saddam was overthrown. Some contain as few as a dozen bodies, while others, including one near the southern city of Basra, contain several thousand.
Most Iraqi victims weren’t killed of course—they were tortured, had ears and limbs brutally amputated, and in some cases kids were raped or beated in front of parents, or vice-versa. But the liberals were against removing Saddam Hussein from power. Vote liberal.
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