Iraq begins with a large pits of graves from ISIS (ISIS), the massacre of the south of Mosul news

Al -Khabalif, near the second largest city in Iraq, can contain 4000 remains and possibly thousand.

Iraqi officials began to excavate what is believed to be a mass grave ISIS (ISIS) During the years of the massacre that was paid to the civilian population after it seized large areas of the nation since 2014, until it was defeated after three years.

The local authorities were working alongside the criminal investigators, the Iraqi Martyrs Foundation, and the collective graves directorate to implement the excavation in the dementia, south of the northern city of Mosul.

It is believed that the site – a sink basin of about 150 meters (about 500 feet) and a width of 110 meters (360 feet) – was the horrific scene of some of the worst massacres committed by ISIS.

Ahmed Kawasi Al -Asadi, head of the collective drilling department of the Martyrs Foundation, told the Associated Press news that his team began work on August 9 at the request of Nineveh Province.

Al -Asadi said that the operation will initially collect visible human remains and superficial evidence, while preparing to extract the complete bodies that officials say will require international support.

Then the Foundation will build a database and start collecting DNA samples from the families of the suspected victims.

Full outputs can only last as soon as specialized assistance to mobility in the risk of the site, including sulfur water and uninterrupted ammunition. Water may also wear human remains, making DNA identification.

Because of the presence of these elements, the fear is a “very complex location”, as Al -Asadi added.

Based on uncommon calculations of witnesses, families and other informal certificates, the authorities estimate that the site can contain at least 4000 residue, with the possibility of other thousands.

The comic is located near MosulThe second largest city in Iraq, where ISIS took control of its defeat in Iraq in late 2017. At its peak, I called on an area of half the size of the United Kingdom, and extends across Iraq and Syria, with Raqqa at the end is the capital of “subscription”.

The reputable collection was its brutality. The group carried out metaphors Thousands of Yazidi people Thousands of Yazidi women enslave. The Yazidis, which is a long -dispersed group for a long time, is still the rooting of its faith in Zoroastrianism, recovering from the horrors of the ISIS attack on their community in the Sinjar region in Iraq in 2014.

“The information indicates that the comic” the largest mass grave in modern Iraqi history. “

However, the researchers in Al -Asadi said they have not yet been able to confirm its size.

About 70 percent of the estimated human remains, it is believed that there are belonging to the Iraqi army and police officers, as well as other victims, including Yazidis.

The interviews conducted with many witnesses from the region indicate that ISIS fighters brought people there by bus to kill them. “Many of them have been beheaded,” Al -Asadi said.

In addition to the mass graves dating back to the ISIS era, the Iraqi authorities continue to discover such sites dating back to Saddam Hussein’s rule, which was overthrown in an invasion led by the United States in 2003.