More Murdered by Saddam

Two new mass graves have been unearthed in Iraq, one containing the remains of a "large number of women, children and elderly people." Both sites have been dated "back from the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein." The new sites augment the list of Saddam's victims, which number more than 300,000 excluding deaths from the Iraq-Iran war.

(via Chrenkoff, twice)

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Good follow-up in (gasp!) the New York Times:

Investigators have discovered several mass graves in southern Iraq that are believed to contain the bodies of people killed by Saddam Hussein's government, including one estimated to hold 5,000 bodies, Iraqi officials say.

The graves, discovered over the past three months, have not yet been dug up because of the risks posed by the continuing insurgency and the lack of qualified forensic workers, said Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's interim human rights minister. But initial excavations have substantiated the accounts of witnesses to a number of massacres. If the estimated body counts prove correct, the new graves would be among the largest in the grim tally of mass killings that have gradually come to light since the fall of Mr. Hussein's government two years ago. At least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people have been found since the American invasion two years ago, Iraqi officials say.

ToxMan says it's WMDs: "Widespread Murdering of Dissidents."

(via The Corner)