Yet another entry in the annals of why they hate us

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Mass Graves ... But Not in Iraq
by Meteor Blades
Mon Feb 16th, 2004 at 03:59:15 GMT

Fredy Peccerelli

In the past few months, we’ve seen a lot of horrific news coverage of the mass graves of Iraq. New ones continue to be found, bringing both grief and a form of closure to the families of those interred. Almost every report notes that without the U.S. invasion of Iraq, these graves might have remained forever covered. But it’s rarely pointed out that at least some of these burials might not have occurred had U.S. policy been different – both during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and during the Shi’a insurgency in 1991 that the White House first blessed, then abandoned.

Some mass graves that U.S. policy was more directly responsible for rarely make the news. Those are scattered across Guatemala, the ones whose remains Fredy Peccerelli and his forensics team have been digging up to examine bone by bone. This week, Peccerelli, having fled his homeland for refuge in the United Kingdom, got some positive feedback from fellow scientists.

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