Photo credit:Sally Hodgson - Department of State
Caption: A black flag waves above the site where a mass grave is located southeast of Basra. In the foreground is a human bone fragment that appears to be a hip bone. The gravesite, measuring about 400 meters square, is made up of 50 horseshoe-shaped mounds of earth, which contain tattered pieces of clothing and shoes. At least one of the horseshoe mounds contained an array of old, apparently abandoned Iraqi unexploded ordnance. Despite the dangers, Iraqis have begun to dig at the site to try to locate the remains of missing relatives
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