Iranians in the south become IDPs: ""They sent us away, the people there. They said to us we had to go to our homes in Iran. We would have been killed," said Saleheh Batah, an Iranian woman who has been living in Iraq with her family for years."
In Electronic Iraq
Senior UN relief official discusses lack of security with US authorities: "As the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator asked the United States authorities in Iraq to improve security, other UN officials turned their focus to the refugee problem, calling for return or compensation for up to 1 million people displaced internally by Saddam Hussein and preparing for the repatriation of up to 500,000 external exiles."
In Electronic Iraq
"We just want to know the truth": "Several weeks have elapsed since the end of hostilities and people continue to dig in search of their loved ones. The horror of the past is beginning to surface in the form of mass graves which continue to be uncovered throughout the country. In the latest discovery in the town of al-Mahawil, near al-Hilla, Iraqis have dug up some 3,000 bodies from a site that is said to contain up to 15,000 "disappeared" people. All are believed to have been arrested and summarily executed in the aftermath of the 1991 uprising."
In Electronic Iraq
Bones unearthed in central Iraq: "MSNBC/AP
Searchers at an Iraqi military firing range have unearthed human bones and articles of clothing they say belong to a mass grave of people executed in the 1990s.Full story »»"
In Command Post: Irak
