Monday, September 23, 2024

Baghdad

276 Kurdish mass graves in Iraq- ministry

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG) said that there are 276 Kurdish mass graves all over the country, including 21 in the northern region. “According to estimates by the ministry’s mass graves committee, there are more than 182,000 victims in those graves,” the head of the committee, Dr. Yaseen Kareem, said in a press conference held in Arbil City today. “Only 10 of the graves have been opened thus far,” Kareem noted. SS (P) 1