Inter Press ServiceIRAQ: 3,000 bodies exhumed at mass grave https://www.ipsnews.net/2003/05/iraq-3000-bodies-exhumed-at-mass-grave/ News and Views from the Global South Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:18:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 IRAQ: 3,000 bodies exhumed at mass grave https://www.ipsnews.net/2003/05/iraq-3000-bodies-exhumed-at-mass-grave/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2003/05/iraq-3000-bodies-exhumed-at-mass-grave/#respond Wed, 14 May 2003 12:06:00 +0000 IPS Correspondents http://ipsnews.net/?p=5522

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By IPS Correspondents
MAHAWEEL, May 14 2003 (IPS)

Villagers pulled body after body from a mass grave in central Iraq on Wednesday, exhuming the remains of up to 3,000 people they suspect were killed during the 1991 revolt against Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Uncounted bodies remained unearthed at the site, officials said.

By every indication, the mass grave in a village outside Hillah, 60 miles south of Baghdad, is the largest found in Iraq since US forces overthrew Saddam and his Baath Party government last month.

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