Bones in shrouds fill the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq, now the home of an Iraqi human rights organization which is overseeing the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, looking for relatives.

An identity card lies on a skull of an exhumed body in the mass grave at Hillah, Iraq. Families have come from all over to search the remains for their missing relatives. The site may contain up to 20,000 bodies.

A man posed with a skull in a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq. When the diggers saw him do this, they chased him out of the grave.

Workers at a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq, look at an identification card discovered with a body and record the person's ID number from it.

Wailing women in black dotted the mass grave at Hillah, Iraq, where over 2,000 bodies were exhumed.

Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains using large diggers in a frantic search for relatives at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq. The destruction of evidence (of crimes against humanity and of identity) was so great that Human Rights Watch began a campaign to embarass the U.S. military into closing the site.

Bones in shrouds in the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq, now the home of an Iraqi human rights organization which is overseeing the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, looking for relatives.

Bones in shrouds fill the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq, now the home of an Iraqi human rights organization which is overseeing the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, looking for relatives.

A body layed out in a shroud, awaiting investigation by the Iraqi exhumation team, from the mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq. Many of the bodies wore decaying blindfolds.