Mass grave in Iraq

John Lloyd Estolero
1 min readJan 28, 2016

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The Iraqi forces found more than 40 bodies in the city of Ramadi west of Baghdad, the city they just took from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) many women and children are included in the mass grave. The Brig. Gen. Saad Maan said that the grave in central Ramadi is contained with civilians and police also there is a footage of the people who were digging with shovels wearing a face mask.

Kurdish forces said that in November there were two uncovered graves in northern Iraq near the Syrian border that was ruled by ISIS for more than a year. Last month the U.N. said that there were 16 mass graves in northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, the extremist group went to Sinjar which is across northern and western Iraq and killed thousands of member of the Yazidi, a religious minority including women who were force into sexual slavery. Last two years, the IS arrested and killed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers while trying to flee from a nearby army base.

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