A total of 1,000 secret graves of political prisoners executed by Saddam Hussein's regime were uncovered in the Baghdad, AFP reported Monday.
A Baghdad cemetery manager and gravedigger told AFP that some 1,000 political prisoners were buried in secret unnamed graves -- marked only with a steel stake and number -- at their cemetery on the western outskirts of Baghdad.
"They are all political. Ten to 15 bodies would arrive at a time from the Abu Ghraib prison and we would bury them here," said manager Mohymeed Aswad.
Gravedigger Mohammad Moshan Mohammad said all the dead that arrived during the last three years he worked at the cemetery were men and women aged between 15 and 30 and had either been shot or hanged.
"There are another five cemeteries in Baghdad with secret grave sites so in this city alone there are about 6,000 (political) corpses. In every cemetery in Baghdad you'll find the same," he said. (Albawaba.com)
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