Iraq discovers remains of 150 Kurds in south Iraq
Iraqi officials flew the remains of 150 Kurds found in a mass grave home to Kurdistan on Wednesday, after a moving ceremony that paid tribute to victims of repression under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.
The mass grave was first discovered by a farmer in an area near the southern city of Najaf three months ago, containing the remains of men, women and children. Officials identified them as Kurds by documents on some of the bodies.
For the ceremony at Najaf airport, the coffins were set out in five rows wrapped in flags of Iraq and the autonomous Kurdish region, before being loaded into a cargo plane and flown to the Kurdish regional capital, Arbil...
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