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A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task.
A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for a laboratory to be genetically checked against blood samples from relatives of the disappeared.
The site near the central shrine city of Najaf is one of many in a country that suffered through more than four decades of bloody conflict and turmoil.
Dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Next came the 1991 Gulf war over Kuwait, then the 2003 US-led invasion, years of sectarian bloodletting and most recently the Islamic State group's reign of terror until 2017.
The years of violence have made Iraq one of the countries with the highest number of missing persons in the world, says the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Read more: From Saddam to IS: Iraq still exhuming mass graves
The key is "political will" and they just don't have it because the powers that be are already preparing for the next mass grave.
A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for a laboratory to be genetically checked against blood samples from relatives of the disappeared.
The site near the central shrine city of Najaf is one of many in a country that suffered through more than four decades of bloody conflict and turmoil.
Dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Next came the 1991 Gulf war over Kuwait, then the 2003 US-led invasion, years of sectarian bloodletting and most recently the Islamic State group's reign of terror until 2017.
The years of violence have made Iraq one of the countries with the highest number of missing persons in the world, says the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Read more: From Saddam to IS: Iraq still exhuming mass graves
The key is "political will" and they just don't have it because the powers that be are already preparing for the next mass grave.
