Thursday, October 9, 2008

Iraq commemorates Saddam's mass grave victims

NAJAF, Iraq – Iraqi officials paid tribute to victims of Saddam Hussein's repression on Wednesday, but fell short of meeting relatives' demands for compensation and DNA tests to identify thousands of bodies discovered in mass graves.

Saddam's Sunni Arab-led government brutally put down a Shi'ite uprising in 1991, and relatives of the victims marched in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf this week...

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