Alwaght- According to the United Nations, more than 200 mass graves have been discovered in Iraq in areas formerly occupied by the ISIS terrorists.
The graves contain the remains of thousands of people who were the victims of the terror group that between June and December 2014 overran large swathes of northern Iraq and declared it part of their so-called caliphate, Reuters reported.
The dead include women, children, the elderly and disabled, as well as members of Iraq’s armed forces and police, a UN report said.
The United Nations has said previously that almost 33,000 civilians were killed by the terror group in Iraq, with more than 55,000 injured.
The grave sites are concentrated in four provinces — Ninewa, Kiruk, Salah al-Din and Anbar — in the north and western parts of the country, near the border with Syria.
“Determining the circumstances surrounding the significant loss of life will be an important step in the mourning process for families and their journey to secure their rights to truth and justice,” said U.N. Representative for Iraq Ján Kubiš.
