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Article: Over 3,000 bodies exhumed from mass grave in Iraq
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 14, 2003
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Over 3,000 bodies exhumed from mass grave in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The remains of up to 3,000 people,
supposedly massacred during the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam
Hussein's regime, had been exhumed from a mass grave near Baghdad, a
doctor leading the excavation said on Wednesday.
Rafid Husseini said local people had retrieved or located over
3,000 bodies in the mass grave in Mahawil, some 90 km south of the
capital, over the past nine days. There were still countless ...