Shafaq News- Baghdad
Iraq’s Medico-Legal Directorate is holding around 13,000sets of remains recovered from mass graves across the country, while forensicauthorities prepare the same number of graves to bury the victims after DNAidentification procedures are completed, a source told Shafaq News on Saturday.
The Iraqi Center for Documenting Crimes of Extremism held ascientific conference titled “Mass Graves… Living Testimonies to the Crimes ofthe Baathist Regime,” focused on documenting historical violations andpromoting transitional justice efforts.
Abbas al-Quraishi, the head of the center, told Shafaq Newsthat the event brought together researchers and specialists in history, law,and human rights to examine “one of the darkest chapters in Iraq’s modernhistory.”
Participants also noted that systematic repression under theBaathist regime targeted broad segments of Iraqi society, particularly Shiites,Kurds, Feyli Kurds, and Shiite Turkmen, alongside other religious and sectariancommunities subjected to arbitrary detention, forced displacement, enforceddisappearance, and mass killings.
According to Iraq’s Martyrs Foundation and United Nationsreports, more than 200 mass grave sites have been identified across Iraq, manydating back to the Baath era, including graves linked to the 1988 Anfalcampaign against Kurds, the 1991 Shaaban uprising, and crackdowns on politicalopponents during the 1980s.
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