The Ba'athist regime buried 8 thousand men, aged between 10 and 70, from Barzan tribe, alive in the deserts of Basra and Kirkuk.

During the period of massacres that lasted from 1983 to 1991, 182 thousand Kurds were massacred as a result of the policies implemented by Saddam's regime.

Some of the funerals – who were buried alive -were found after 1991. In 2003, hundreds of funerals were found in Basra and Kirkuk.

It is believed that the funerals of thousands of Kurds still missing.

On March 16, 1988, five thousand civilian Kurds, including women, children and elderly people killed by chemical weapons in Halabja, while over five thousand people were wounded.

The Iraq Mass Graves Committee recently announced the discovery of a mass grave belonging to the massacre Kurdish people carried out by Saddam Hussein in the Samawa desert.

The mass grave was said to be contained 70 Feili Kurds, including women and children.

Officials said in April that they had been informed that there was a large mass grave in Samawa dating back to the early 80s.

The remains of hundreds of women and children have been found in the burial pits. They are victims of Saddam Hussein's campaign of extermination known as the Anfal, launched in the late 1980s.

ILKHA