Locals dig up the playground of the al-Makdad secondary school in Basra. A suspected mass grave of dissidents killed in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s brutal suppression of the 1991 uprising in southern Iraq (news - web sites) was unearthed in the schoolyard 28 May, AFP correspondents witnessed. Relatives rented a pneumatic drill to break through the layer of concrete that had been laid down over the former playing field at the al-Makdad school behind the military hospital in the centre of the southern capital.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
