Thursday, April 17, 2003
KIRKUK, Iraq (UPI) -- Kurdish satellite television reported Wednesday it has found a cemetery filled with an estimated 3,000 unmarked shallow graves, located at a Kirkuk military camp... Kurds have re-occupied the city since the departure of Iraqi forces. Satellite television for Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two major Kurdish parties, was led to the grave by a Kurdish resident.
The graves were filled by people buried in civilian clothes, and are believed to have been civilians, the news outlet said according to a translation by British Broadcast Corp. The cemetery was located at the southern edge of the road to a large Iraqi military position, near the house of slain Iraqi Ali Hassan al-Majid, so-called "Chemical Ali," who is accused of killing more than 100,000 Kurds in a chemical weapon strike in 1988...
KIRKUK, Iraq (UPI) -- Kurdish satellite television reported Wednesday it has found a cemetery filled with an estimated 3,000 unmarked shallow graves, located at a Kirkuk military camp... Kurds have re-occupied the city since the departure of Iraqi forces. Satellite television for Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two major Kurdish parties, was led to the grave by a Kurdish resident.
The graves were filled by people buried in civilian clothes, and are believed to have been civilians, the news outlet said according to a translation by British Broadcast Corp. The cemetery was located at the southern edge of the road to a large Iraqi military position, near the house of slain Iraqi Ali Hassan al-Majid, so-called "Chemical Ali," who is accused of killing more than 100,000 Kurds in a chemical weapon strike in 1988...
