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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (681173)	4/30/2005 4:06:00 PM
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Experts combing through mass grave in Iraq Bombers kill 11 in Baghdad, Mosul Saturday, April 30, 2005 Posted: 3:24 PM EDT (1924 GMT) A forensic expert goes through skulls and bones, clothing and other belongings found in shallow graves. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Forensic experts are investigating a mass grave thought to contain the remains of as many as 1,500 Kurds killed in the 1980s. The grave, with 18 trenches, is in Samawa, 230 miles (370 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, along the Euphrates River. Most of Iraq's Kurds live in the north of the country. "We know they're Kurdish victims because of the clothing and artifacts that were found with the bodies," said Gregg Nivala, an attorney with the Department of Justice's Regime Crimes Liaison Office. Nivala said more than 300 mass graves have been found in Iraq, but investigators have only been able to get to two. It is not clear how many bodies are in any of the other graves. In the late 1980s, Saddam Hussein's government forcibly removed Kurds from their homes in the country's north in an attempt to resettle their communities with Arabs. "We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family," Bakhtiar Amin, outgoing Iraqi Human Rights Minister and a Kurd. About 26 million people live in Iraq. Investigators working at the grave since early April have recovered the remains of 113 people. With the exception of five, all are women and children. About 15 percent of the bodies had identification cards. It is thought that the trenches were dug by the Kurds, who were shot right at the edge of the trenches and buried in them. The new government in Iraq is trying to build a criminal case against Saddam and 10 of his aides. The Iraq Special Tribunal was established in late 2003 to bring charges against members of Saddam's regime for crimes against humanity, including war crimes in connection with Iraq's wars against Iran and Kuwait. At a July 2004 hearing, seven preliminary charges were outlined in the former ruler's arrest warrant -- the killing of religious figures in 1974; gassing of Kurds in Halabja in 1988; killing the Kurdish Barzani clan in 1983; killing members of political parties in the last 30 years; the 1986-88 ''Anfal'' campaign of displacing Kurds; the suppression of the 1991 uprisings by Kurds and Shiites, and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The charges were not formal. No trial date has been set.