Iraq begins digging a mass grave to the suspected Islamic state

Iraqi Officials have begun to excavate what is believed to be a mass grave An extremist group for the Islamic state During its irritation throughout the country a decade ago.

Local authorities are working with judicial investigations, criminal investigations, The basis of the martyrs of IraqThe Iraqi Governmental News Agency reported on Sunday that the collective graves directorate to implement the digging of the pelvic site in Al -Khurf, south of the northern city of Mosul.

Ahmed Kawasi Al -Asadi, head of the collective drilling department of the martyrs Foundation, told Associated Press that his team began working on a severity on August 9 at the request of the governor of Nineveh Province, Abdul Qadir Dakhil.

The process initially is limited to collecting visible human remains and surface evidence while preparing for complete extraction, which officials say will require international support.

After 15 days of work, the Foundation’s Mosul teams will build a database and start collecting DNA samples from the families of the suspect victims.

Al -Asadi explained that laboratory treatment and DNA database should come first to ensure proper identification. Full outputs can only last as soon as specialized assistance to mobility in the risk of the site, including sulfur water and uninterrupted ammunition.

He said that a “location is very complicated”.

He said that the authorities estimate that the authorities estimate that thousands of corpses can be buried there based on unreasonable accounts of witnesses, families and other informal certificates, and the authorities estimate that thousands of bodies can be buried there.

Dozens of collective graves It contains thousands of the bodies of people who are believed to be killed by the extremist group It was found in Iraq And Syria.

It is believed that some mass graves in Iraq over the past two decades date back to the early nineties during the Saddam Hussein regime. Other collective graves include The bodies of women and children.

At its peak, the area of half the size of the United Kingdom in Iraq and Syria governs its notorious. She cut off civilians and raped thousands of women from the Yazidi community, one of the oldest religious minorities in Iraq. The extremist group boasted about the slaughter of the Shiites and other opponents, and videos, young women and pictures of killing are often released.

The group was defeated in Iraq in July 2017, when the Iraqi forces seized the northern city of Mosul. Three months later, it was hit when the Kurdish forces seized the northern city of Raqqa, which was the capital of the real group. The official war ended in March 2019, when the United States -backed Democratic fighters and Kurdis seized East of the Syrian town of BaguzWhich was the last segment of the land controlled by extremists.

“The information obtained by the various Iraqi courts and the various Iraqi courts during his investigations indicates a comic as” the largest collective grave in modern Iraqi history. “

However, the researchers in Al -Asadi said, “It cannot yet emphasize whether the largest mass grave” can be found in Iraq, “but according to the size of the area, we appreciate it is one of the largest.”

Atia said that approximately 70 % of human remains are believed to belong to the Iraqi army and police officers, with other victims, including the Yazidis.

He said he met many eyewitnesses from the area who saw that the fighters were bringing people there with the bus and killing them. “Many of them have been beheaded,” he said.

Atwa’s uncle and his cousin were police officers who were killed by him, and he is among those who hope to identify the remains of their loved ones and restore it.

Certificates and witnesses of witnesses, as well as the results reached by other collective graves in Nineveh, indicate that most members of the security forces, the police and other security forces who were killed by a comic, along with the Yazidis from Sinjar and the Shiite victims from the following are far away.