International • Created November 15, 2015 22:37

Kurdish force finds mass grave in Iraq’s Sinjar

A grim discovery has been made in the Iraqi town of Sinjar as Kurdish fighters who claimed victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, entered the war-torn community and found at least one mass grave containing the bodies of Yazidis. Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters said they dug up bones, hair […]

Kurdish force finds mass grave in Iraq’s Sinjar
Kurdish force finds mass grave in Iraq’s Sinjar

A grim discovery has been made in the Iraqi town of Sinjar as Kurdish fighters who claimed victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, entered the war-torn community and found at least one mass grave containing the bodies of Yazidis.
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters said they dug up bones, hair and personal items, evidence of what they said was ISIL brutality.
Hussein Haffoun, an adviser to the Kurdish regional government, told Al Jazeera that the grave found by the Peshmerga contains 76 bodies, including that of young women.
Haffoun said that the attack occurred on August 15, 2014, and that it could qualify as a genocide.

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