(MENAFN) On Sunday, Iraqi President Barham Salih visited a mass grave discovered in the desert of Samawa in Iraq's southern province of Muthanna.
Salih was accompanied by Jeanine Plasschaert, head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and Ahmed Jouda, governor of Muthanna, to join the unearthing ceremony of the mass grave.
The mass grave includes the remains of scores of Iraqi Kurds who were arrested during the Anfal campaign conducted in late 1980s by the forces of previous Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Salih emphasized that Saddam's regime murdered many Kurds because "he thought they posed danger to his regime," the statement stated.
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