Bodies stacked in Layers

With the trial of Hussein and his aides scheduled for late summer/early fall, an article by Christopher Drew and Tresha Mabile reports on a burial site found in Hatra, Northern Iraq, holding 2500 bodies and which “shows how the Hussein leadership made a business of killing people”, with bodies stacked in layers wearing clothes and carrying belongings, as if on their way to resettlement. Investigators are trying to prove Hussein knew of or even ordered this mass killing via ‘command responsibility’, by starting with the bodies in the ground and tracing the orders up the chain of command. (MH)