According to news sources, the largest mass grave in human history has been discovered in Nineveh Province, located in northern Iraq.
This grave, located in the Al-Khasfa area near the city of Mosul, contains the remains of thousands of civilians and soldiers who were massacred by the ISIS terrorist group between 2014 and 2017.
Abdul Qadir Al-Dakhil, the governor of Nineveh, announced on Sunday (August 17) that the official operation to reopen this grave has begun under the supervision of judicial, security, health and technical institutions.
The purpose of this effort to document ISIS crimes is to identify the victims and ensure the rights of their families.
The deep pit of “Al-Khasfa”, a natural geological fissure, was used by ISIS as a burial site for the bodies of victims of mass executions.
It is estimated that this grave contains the remains of 2,000 to 4,000 people or even more.
Al-Dakhil stated in a press conference that the Al-Khasfa cemetery is a deep wound in the heart of Nineveh, where the ISIS group executed more than 20,000 people of different ethnicities and religions.
