IRAQ: THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS PARTICIPATE IN THE BURIAL OF BODIES FOUND IN A MASS GRAVE

Record ID: 584776

  • Title: IRAQ: THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS PARTICIPATE IN THE BURIAL OF BODIES FOUND IN A MASS GRAVE
  • Date: 14th May 2003
  • Summary: (W3) BASRA, IRAQ (MAY 14, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV MEN CARRYING COFFINS (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. LV VEILED WOMEN CRYING 0.21 3. SV WOMEN BEATING CHESTS/SITTING BY COFFINS (2 SHOTS) 0.35 4. LV/SLV PEOPLE PRAYING BY COFFINS (3 SHOTS) 0.57 5. SV WOMEN WAILING 1.04 6. TV THOUSANDS MARCHING WITH COFFINS 1.16 7. SV MAN FIRING IN THE AIR 1.20 8. LV PEOPLE HOLDING PORTRAITS OF SHIITE LEADERS 1.31 9. SV/LV MEN CARRYING COFFINS (2 SHOTS) 1.45 10. TV MEN BEATING CHESTS 1.49 11. LV/TV PEOPLE MARCHING WITH COFFINS (2 SHOTS) 2.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BASRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA3O0P0WP222WWHI2327I3YP0CA
  • Story Text: Thousands of Iraqis have participated in the burial of
    bodies found in a mass grave south of the city of Basra.



    Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in the U.S.-led war on
    Iraq, Iraqis who say they have witnessed mass executions in
    remote parts of the country have been helping uncover mass
    grave sites in Najaf, Basra, Babylon and other areas.

    On Wednesday (May 14), Iraqis carried through the streets
    of Basra the coffins of some of the victims found two days
    earlier at a mass grave site at al-Barjasiya, south of Basra.

    The mourners intended to bury the coffins near the holy
    city of Najaf.

    The mass grave at al-Barjasiya is different from the huge
    mass grave found further north, at Manahil, about 90 kms south
    of Baghdad, in which the bodies of thousands of Shiite Iraqis
    believed to have been executed have been found.

    Amnesty International has said that over the past 20 years
    it has collected information about 17,000 disappearances in
    Iraq but the actual figure may be much higher.



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