Bodies discovered in Iraqi mass grave - Video
A mass grave of more than 800 people has been discovered in western Iraq. According to Reuters, the head of the Human Rights Ministry says claims they were the remains of former opponents of Saddam Hussein. They had been executed and dumped in one of 25 trenches in the vast desert in Western Iraq's Anbar Province. Some of the remains were identified as being of women and children. 'This location is a mass grave and it is one of the mass graves of the former regime. It dates back to the 1980's - the period between 1982 and 1987. The area of the mass grave is five acres and contains twenty-five trenches where a lot of victims were killed by security forces of the former regime,' said Khudier Hamdan, head of Iraq's Human Rights Ministry. The remains were thought to be mostly of Shi'ites and Kurds, who were marginalised under Saddam.