IRAQ: IRAQI MEN DUG UP AND EXAMINED THE REMAINS OF A MASS GRAVE IN SALMAN PARK, 35 KN EAST OF BAGHDAD, IN THE HOPE OF FINDING RELATIVES BODIES

Record ID: 647916

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQI MEN DUG UP AND EXAMINED THE REMAINS OF A MASS GRAVE IN SALMAN PARK, 35 KN EAST OF BAGHDAD, IN THE HOPE OF FINDING RELATIVES BODIES
  • Date: 7th June 2003
  • Summary: (U3) SALMAN PAK, 35 KM EAST OF BAGHDAD, (JUNE 7, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/LV: OF IRAQI PEOPLE WATCHING MECHANICAL DIGGER AT MASS GRAVE SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. MLV: MAN SITS SILENTLY NEAR MASS GRAVE SITE 0.21 3. LV/WS: DIGGER CONTINUES AS CROWD LOOKS DOWN INTO PIT 0.27 4. MLV: GROUP OF MEN, ONE PUTTING ON SURGICAL GLOVES 0.32 5. VARIOUS: OF CLOSE UPS OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT DISHEVELLED CORPSES IN PLASTIC BAGS (3 SHOTS) 0.47 6. WS: OF MEN SEALING UP A PLASTIC BAG CONTAINING A BODY 0.54 7. VARIOUS: GROUPS OF MEN EXAMINE CLOTHES THAT ARE LEFT ON THE DISHEVELLED CORPSES (2 SHOTS) 1.12 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SAEED AL-SHAMARI, LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING: "After the 1991 uprising, we saw large vehicles coming late at night, full of youths who were executed in this place. We know well that there are other grave yards and we are ready to dig them up." 1.32 9. CU: OF MAN IN SURGICAL GLOVES EXAMINING A PAIR OF SHOES 1.40 10. GV: A GROUP OF MEN OBSERVE THE SHOES 1.46 11. VARIOUS: GROUPS OF MEN IN AND AROUND THE MASS GRAVE SITE 2.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: SALMAN PAK, EAST OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA2983UVC2PJ4O9EJ5VY8CUPSUH
  • Story Text: Iraqi families have been grieving as they pick through
    piles of bones at a vast mass grave near Baghdad.



    The families picked through piles of bones at the mass
    grave in Salman Pak, 35 km east of Baghdad, on Saturday (June
    7).

    People searched for faded identity cards or other clues
    among the skeletons to try to identify brothers, fathers,
    mothers, sisters and even children who disappeared when Saddam
    Hussein's government cracked down on a Shi'ite uprising in
    1991.

    "After the 1991 uprising, we saw large vehicles coming
    late at
    night, full of youths who were executed in this place. We know
    well that there are other grave yards and we are ready to dig
    them up," said Saeed Al-Shamari.

    As an earthmover scraped heaps of brown earth from the
    site, bones protruded from the dirt. Skulls and bones were
    heaped into crumbled piles or stuffed into plastic bags.

    Clothing hung from the bones. Some skulls were cracked.

    Some of the remains were clearly those of children.


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