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Iraqis exhuming mass graves
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By Sinan Salaheddin
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forensic
teams in the newly recaptured
city of Ttkrit have started ex-
huming bodies from mass
graves believed to contain some
of the hundreds of soldiers killed
by Islamic State militants last
year, a government spokesman
said Tuesday.
Kamil Amin from Iraq’s Hu-
man Rights Ministry said the
work started on Monday on
eight locations inside Tikrit’s
complex of presidential palaces,
where much of the killing is be-
lieved to have taken place.
Islamic State militants over-
ran Saddam Hussein’s home-
town last June, capturing
around 1,700 soldiers as they
were trying to flee Camp Speich-
er, an air base previously used by
U.S. troops on the outskirt of
Tikrit.
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A Shiite militiaman prays at a mass grave — believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers
killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran the Camp Speicher military base last
June — in Tikrit, Iraq, 80 miles north of Baghdad on Friday.
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The fall of Tikrit was part of
the Islamic State onslaught that
stunned Iraqi security forces
and the military, which melted
away as the militants advanced.
Later, the Islamic State
group posted graphic images
online that appeared to show its
gunmen massacring scores of
the soldiers after loading the
captives onto flatbed trucks and
then forcing them to lay face-
down in a shallow ditch, their
arms tied behind their backs.
Other videos showed masked
gunmen bringing the soldiers to
a bloodstained concrete river
waterfront inside the presiden-
tial palaces complex in Tikrit,
shooting them in the head and
throwing them into the Tigris
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where they forced some 600
Shiite inmates captured from
Badoosh prison to kneel along
the edge of a nearby ravine and
shot them with automatic weap-
ons.
exhumed on Monday. Lab tests
will be carried out to match
them with DNA samples that
have already been taken from
families of around 85 percent of
the victims.
Iraqi state TV showed foren-
sic teams digging in an open ar-
ea, helped by bulldozers as fami-
ly members stood nearby. The
bodies were tagged with yellow
tags while weeping soldiers and
relatives lit candles and laid
flowers alongside the covered
remains.
One clip showed unearthed
skeletal remains still wearing
combat boots.
“The work is continuing and
we expect to discover more mass
graves in different areas,” Amin
said. “We expect huge number of
bodies to be unearthed.”
During their blitz last year,
Islamic State extremists also
carried out other mass killings in
other areas. One of those massa-
cres was outside the country’s
styled caliphate in the large area
straddling the Iraqi-Syrian bor-
der that it now controls.
In early August, the United
States launched airstrikes on the
militant group in Iraq, in an ef-
fort to help Iraqi forces fight
back against the growing threat
by the IS militants, who still hold
the northern Iraqi province of
Ninevah and most of the west-
ern province of Anbar, in addi-
tion to small areas north of
Baghdad in their hands, along
with a large swath of land in
neighboring Syria.
Also on Tuesday, the Islamic
State group started broadcast-
ing in English on the militants’
al-Bayan radio station, with a
fluent English-speaking pre-
senter, according to the SITE In-
telligence Group, a U.S. group
that monitors militant websites.
The broadcast on Tuesday gave
the overview of recent attacks IS
launched in Iraq, Syria and lib-
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The prisoners had been serv-
ing sentences for a range of
crimes, from murder and as-
sault to nonviolent offenses.
And in Anbar province, the
militants shot dead dozens of
pro-government Sunni tribal
fighters in public areas after cap-
turing their towns.
The Islamic State’s onslaught
plunged Iraq into its worst crisis
since the 2011 U.S. troop with-
drawal from the country.
The militants have also tar-
geted Iraq’s indigenous religious
minorities, including Christians
and followers of the ancient Ya-
zidi faith, forcing tens of thou-
sands from their homes.
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group has carved out a self-
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After weeks of bitter clashes,
Iraqi forces and allied Shiite mi-
litias, succeeded in retaking Tik-
rit from the Islamic State. Their
victory was helped by U.S.-led
coalition airstrikes, which were
not initially part of the opera-
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