200 Kurdish babies found in a mass grave near Kirkuk

London (KurdishMedia.com) 04 June 2003: A mass grave containing the remains of 200 Kurdish children has been discovered in the liberated Kurdish city of Kirkuk, reported the KDP Arabic daily, Al-Taakhi.

"Citizens discovered on May 30, 2003 a communal grave close to Debs, in Kirkuk. But this is different from other mass graves discovered since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s terrorist regime because it contains the remains of 200 child victims of the repression of the Kurdish uprising" in 1991, the paper said.

"Even dolls were buried with the children," it said.

It is believed that they were buried alive.

It was also reported in the local media that an adult was also in the grave. It was suggested that she could have been their minder.