Iraq: dozens of bodies exhumed from mass graves in Tikrit
The Iranian expert teams began Monday, April 6 to exhume mass in the Tikrit area, north of Baghdad. 47 bodies have been exhumed.
Hundreds more are still buried body. These tanks may contain the remains of 1,700 soldiers of the government army killed last summer by jihadist Islamic State Group (EI).
There would be a total of a dozen mass graves in the Tikrit area. In June 2014, the IU fighters, Sunni, Shiite soldiers massacred Camp Speicher, a former US base near Tikrit, and broadcast on the Internet images of these mass executions. In all, some 1,700 Iraqi soldiers were executed. Senior officers of the Iraqi army have even coined to al Qaeda capture troops, according to several witnesses.
"We started working on the first pit and we found a score of bodies. It seems that these are soldiers shot at Camp Speicher, said Khalid al Atbi, an Iraqi health official specially sent there. It was a shocking scene. We could not hold our tears. What barbarism and killed 1,700 people in cold blood! "He added.
Tikrit was taken this week by the Iraqi army supported by Shiite militiamen and air strikes from coalition led by the United States. Shiite militiamen and soldiers have already looted several houses and shops belonging to the Sunni community.
Hundreds more are still buried body. These tanks may contain the remains of 1,700 soldiers of the government army killed last summer by jihadist Islamic State Group (EI).
There would be a total of a dozen mass graves in the Tikrit area. In June 2014, the IU fighters, Sunni, Shiite soldiers massacred Camp Speicher, a former US base near Tikrit, and broadcast on the Internet images of these mass executions. In all, some 1,700 Iraqi soldiers were executed. Senior officers of the Iraqi army have even coined to al Qaeda capture troops, according to several witnesses.
"We started working on the first pit and we found a score of bodies. It seems that these are soldiers shot at Camp Speicher, said Khalid al Atbi, an Iraqi health official specially sent there. It was a shocking scene. We could not hold our tears. What barbarism and killed 1,700 people in cold blood! "He added.
Tikrit was taken this week by the Iraqi army supported by Shiite militiamen and air strikes from coalition led by the United States. Shiite militiamen and soldiers have already looted several houses and shops belonging to the Sunni community.
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