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The Missing in Iraq { 30 images } Created 31 Oct 2019

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  • Men point to their missing relatives in street display of faces of Iraqis arrested and disappeared by Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980's and 1990's.
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  • Researchers at the Committe of Freed Prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq, sift through police files taken from looted ministries, looking for execution and imprisonment records. Human Rights Watch estimates over 200,000 people missing, and the Committee has established offices in many cities in Iraq, sifting the remains of Saddam Hussein's government for clues to their where-abouts.
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  • Researchers at the Committe of Freed Prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq, sift through police files taken from looted ministries, looking for execution and imprisonment records. Human Rights Watch estimates over 200,000 people missing, and the Committee has established offices in many cities in Iraq, sifting the remains of Saddam Hussein's government for clues to their where-abouts.
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  • Visitors check the lists of the executed people, compiled from police files, looking for their missing relatives, at the Committee of Freed Prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq.
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  • Bones and a skull at a smaller mass grave site near Hillah, Iraq, in a marshy area where one can see the remains of men, women and children. Some remains from the site were recovered by local people and left in piles.
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  • People come from all over Iraq to check lists at the various branches of the Committe of Freed Prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq,which sifts through police files taken from looted ministries, looking for execution and imprisonment records. Human Rights Watch estimates over 200,000 people missing, and the Committee has established offices in many cities in Iraq, sifting the remains of Saddam Hussein's government for clues to their where-abouts.
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  • Inside the graveyard at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, next to the prison, a walled-off plot held the remains of prisoners who were executed during the fighting. Most of the graves are exhumed.
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  • Shoes litter the desert above the mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq. The different kinds of shoes tell who lies beneath sands: soldiers, farmers, women, teenagers....
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  • A skull at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq, where one can see the remains of men, women and children. Some remains from the site were recovered by local people and left in piles.
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  • The clothing, documents, and remains of the bodies dug up at the mass grave near Hillah, Iraq, were put into plastic bags and left out for people to search as they tried to find their missing relatives. Plastic bags are a bad way to store such evidence, since the trapped moisture causes poisonous molds to grow. However, those in charge, Iraqis and Americans, paid no heed to advice from the specialists.
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  • A child's shoe at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq, where one can see the remains of men, women and children. Some remains from the site were recovered by local people and left in piles.
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  • Workers dig up the mass graves near Al-Musayab, Iraq, with a bulldozer and shovels. The team leader at the site took care to avoid destroying the bodies with the bulldozer, unlike at other sites in Iraq.
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  • Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains using a large digger in a frantic search to find long-missing relatives near Hillah, Iraq. The chaotic digging caused such destruction of evidence -- of both crimes against humanity and of identity -- that Human Rights Watch began a campaign to embarass the U.S. military into closing the site.
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  • Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains in a frantic search for relatives at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq. They check the bones and clothes for identification papers, jewelery, even cigaret packs, looking for something familiar. 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.
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  • An Iraqi man searching in a mass grave site for remains stops to cry in frustration. Iraqis search a mass grave site for remains in a frantic search for relatives at a mass grave near Hillah, Iraq. They check the bones and clothes for identification papers, jewelery, even cigaret packs, looking for something familiar. 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.
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  • The clothing, documents, and remains of the bodies dug up at the mass grave near Hillah, Iraq, were put into plastic bags and left out for people to search as they tried to find their missing relatives. Plastic bags are a bad way to store such evidence, since the trapped moisture causes poisonous molds to grow. However, those in charge, Iraqis and Americans, paid no heed to advice from the specialists.
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  • The Iraqi exhumation team carries another pile of bones in a shroud at a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq, to be examined.
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  • 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.
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  • A body in a shroud at a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq, with a code on it.
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  • An array of shroud-wrapped remains lie in the desert at a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq.
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  • 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.
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  • A photojournalist, Bruno Stevens, shoots the shrouded bones and a worker at a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq. Journalists were called upon to show how the exhumations were being handled.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • While the adults moved from shroud to shroud, trying to find their dead relatives, children waited or played among the dead that covered the floor of the gymnasium in the Iraqi city of Al-Musayib. Although they seemed unmoved by the bodies around them, a psychologist said the children often have terrible nightmares.
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  • A group of men stand around a body in a shroud 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.
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  • 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 oversees the exhumations of bodies from local mass graves. People come from all over Iraq to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, hoping to discover a long-lost relative.
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  • A woman cries in frustration while searching for her missing relatives among the bones in shrouds that fill the gymnasium of the local sports center in Al-Musayab, Iraq. People come from all over to check the clothing and ID cards of the bodies, looking for long-lost relatives.
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  • Plastic bags hold unreadable identification cards and other evidence, found in a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq, now in the sports hall, which has become 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.
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  • A man is overcome with emotion while collecting his brother's remains from the mass grave at Hillah, Iraq. The site may contain up to 20,000 bodies.
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