The Islamic State left 200 graves in mass in Iraq, says the UN
The Islamic State left 200 graves in mass in Iraq, says the UN
The Islamic State left more than 200 mass graves in Iraq, the United Nations said Tuesday, after the three-year occupation of the extremist group in the north of the country that could provide some of the first evidence of war crimes committed during his rule .
The Iraqi government has tried and executed dozens of Islamic State militants since the group withdrew, but none for war crimes.
"The mass graves documented in our report are a testament to human loss, profound suffering and shocking cruelty," said UN representative in Iraq Jan Kubis.
Exhuming the burial sites, which contain up to 12,000 victims, is a painstaking job for which Iraq is ill equipped. After years of conflict, Iraq has one of the highest numbers of missing persons in the world, but only 25 specialists. Trained in scientific exhumation techniques..
Unearthing remains of sinkholes and other sites in northern and western Iraq, and gathering bones for families to identify them, has left members of the excavation team with skin diseases, while the morgues of Iraq have struggled to adapt to the number of corpses.
But work is critical for Families that have been deprived of a sense of closure. after family members disappeared under the government of the Islamic State.
"The longer the mass graves are not dug, the more we suffer. We want to know where our missing family members are, "said Samir Faris, a member of the Yazidi community of Sinjar who says the Islamic State killed 24 of his relatives, and believes 14 are buried in a mass grave. I finished. I would like the government to dig up the grave and tell us what is in it, "he said.
As of 2014, the Islamic State conquered about a third of Iraq and fringes of neighboring Syria. The same year, the first mass grave of the Islamic State in Iraq was discovered, containing the remains of 14 Yazidi civilians, a community that was selected for persecution by extremists.
During the three years, before its defeat by a coalition of Iraqi forces backed by the United States, the Islamic State executed men, women and children. The one. has documented a total of 202 mass graves in parts of the country that were under the control of the Islamic State.
"The horrible crimes of ISIL in Iraq have left the headlines, but the trauma of the families of the victims endures, with thousands of women, men and children who have not yet been resolved," said in the new report Michelle Bachelet, Alta Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights. For the extremist group.
Almost half of the mass graves are located in the governorate of Nineveh, where the Islamic State is still active, most of them around Mosul, the largest city under Islamic State control until 2017. The UN believes that the grave large, in the sink of Khasfa outside Mosul, could contain several thousand victims.
In 2017, the Iraqi government declared victory over the Islamic State, which was evicted from its main strongholds, both in Iraq and in Syria. The group continues to wage an insurgency of remote hiding places, but the work of exhuming common graves marks an effort for Iraq to move beyond its recent and problematic history.
So far, only 28 of the tombs in Iraq have been excavated, unearthing the remains of 1,258 bodies.
In both Syria and Iraq, where the Islamic State ruled swaths of land until last year, local authorities are trying to unearth common graves, identify the victims and advance reconstruction.
"The government should pay more attention to the excavation of mass graves and release more funds for it," Hassan Karim al-Kaabi, the first deputy speaker of the Iraqi parliament, told a meeting with officials on Monday.
But the enormous challenges go beyond personnel and technical training.
Some common graves are located in areas where the Islamic State still operates, such as the Anbar and Salah al-Din governorates. Some of the sites may be full of explosive remnants of war. However, the work is considered a critical part of Iraqi efforts to go beyond the consequences of a painful three year period under the Islamic State.
"Determining the circumstances surrounding the significant loss of lives will be an important step in the grieving process for families and their journey to secure their rights to truth and justice," said Mr. Kubis.
-Ghassan Adnan contributed to this article.
Write to Sune Engel Rasmussen in sune.rasmussen@wsj.com
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