Mass Grave Yard of former regime’s victims discovered in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: A mass grave yard of the victims of the former Baath regime had been discovered by a Human Rights team in northern Basra on Friday, a local Basra official said on Saturday. “The grave yard, discovered by a team of Human Rights Ministry and the Human Rights Bureau, in al-Der village, 60 km to the north of Basra, comprised remnants of many victims of the former regime, dating back to 1991,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source did not give the exact number of the victims, but said that works continued to count them, adding that the past few years had witnessed the discovery of another mass grave yard in al-Sawaid area, also in Der village. Basra, the center of southern Iraq’s Basra Province, is 590 km to the south of Baghdad. SKH/SR 2