Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Another Iraqi Mass Grave Discovered

From AKI with a hat/tip to Right Nation, this short article on just another garden variety mass grave in Iraq.

Karbala, 27 Dec. (AKI) - Police in the Shiite holy city of Karbala say they have uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of men, women and children. The gruesome find was made by workers digging a water pipeline. Local authorities say they believe the corpses are those of a hundred or more Shiites slaughtered just after the end of the first Gulf War, in reprisal for having staged an uprising against Saddam Hussein.

There are believed to be as many as 30,000 victims in the Shiite revolt. Since the overthrow of Saddam in April 2003, scores of mass graves have been found, mainly in the northern Kurdish areas or in the Shiite-inhjabited areas of southern Iraq.

(Fmk/Aki)
The man responsible for the many mass graves in Iraq is today behind bars and being tried for his crimes. However, a lot of people on the left aren't happy with this arrangment, preferring instead, that Saddam still be in power, and that the people, if they wanted to be free, should rise up on their own.

Here are a few that did.

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