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Working with shovels and bare hands, Iraqis excavate a mass grave filled with the remains of dozens of people who witnesses said were executed after a 1991 Shiite uprising, in Khan Al-Rubea, 12 miles north of Najaf on May 4, 2003.
Working with shovels and bare hands, Iraqis excavate a mass grave filled with the remains of dozens of people who witnesses said were executed after a 1991 Shiite uprising, in Khan Al-Rubea, 12 miles north of Najaf on May 4, 2003.

Tens of thousands of people were killed after Iraq's Shiite majority rose up after the 1991 Gulf War and seized control of most of the southern part of the country.

©AP/Wide World Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian

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