Iraq begins painful task of identifying IS victims in mass graves
With help from the United Nations, the Iraqi government has begun exhuming the mass graves of thousands of Yazidis killed by the Islamic State.
Iraqi workers have completed the first of many exhumations of mass graves of Yazidis killed by the Islamic State in 2014.
The process began March 15 under the supervision of the Iraqi cabinet, the Ministry of Health and the government-affiliated Martyrs Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations and its investigative team. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad was also in attendance. Now a human rights activist, Murad was held capitve by IS as a slave for three months before she was able to escape.
