Another skeleton falls out of Saddam's closet.
SULEIMANIYAH, Iraq — Workers digging the foundation of a new hospital in this northern city discovered Wednesday a burial site that a regional human rights minister said could contain the remains of hundreds of people.
Officials said the bodies were believed to be of Kurds killed while fleeing Saddam Hussein's army as it tried to crush an uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.
Speaking at the site of the dig, Salah Rashid, the regional Kurdish human rights minister, said "there are mass graves all over Kurdistan especially in areas that were under the control of the Iraqi government."
"This grave dates back to 1991 when Saddam's regime came to crush the Kurdish uprising," Rashid said. He predicted that at least 400 bodies would be found there.
Officials said the bodies were believed to be of Kurds killed while fleeing Saddam Hussein's army as it tried to crush an uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.
Speaking at the site of the dig, Salah Rashid, the regional Kurdish human rights minister, said "there are mass graves all over Kurdistan especially in areas that were under the control of the Iraqi government."
"This grave dates back to 1991 when Saddam's regime came to crush the Kurdish uprising," Rashid said. He predicted that at least 400 bodies would be found there.
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