BAGHDAD — Dozens of Iraqis gave blood samples in Baghdad on Wednesday as the country carries out a campaign to identify hundreds of victims of the Islamic State group found in a mass grave.
The Badush prison massacre was one of the worst crimes IS carried out after it seized control of a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014.
In June that year, IS fighters attacked the prison, located in the country’s northwest, freeing Sunnis and loading the remaining 600 mainly Shiite inmates onto trucks, before driving them to a ravine and shooting them.
The mass grave, discovered after Iraqi forces retook control of the area in March 2017, is one of dozens the extremi…
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