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BAGHDAD, April 12 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Human Rights Ministry announced Tuesday
discovery of a mass grave in western Iraq containing people killed by the
former regime in Baghdad.
Human Rights Minister Mohammad Al-Sudani inspected the mass grave which
contained remains of 812 people who were shot in the head between 1980-89, a
ministry statement said.
The mass grave contains remains of men, women and children from different
ethnicities.
"The grave is one of the ugliest crimes of the defunct dictatorship ... and
a blatant violation of human rights," said Al-Sudani. (end)
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