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April 8, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/world/middleeast/iraq-mass-graves-cadets-islamic-state-isis.html

Iraq Empties Mass Graves in Search for Cadets Killed by ISIS

(New York Times) Rod Nordland - Mass graves believed to contain some of the remains of Iraqi air force cadets massacred by the Islamic State in June were discovered on Monday outside Tikrit. So far the remains of 57 bodies have been identified, a fraction of the 1,686 air force cadets who went missing in June. Islamic State posted videos showing hundreds of cadets being executed, and boasted that it had killed 1,700. Many of the victims' bodies were thrown into the Tigris River, and the remains of 35 cadets washed up at the nearest dam downstream, in Samarra, in June.

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