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11/12/2005:

"Iraqis find 27 bodies near border with Iran"

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Army soldiers near the Iranian border discovered the bound bodies of 27 people in civilian clothes who had been shot in the head, the latest in a series of suspected political killings, officials said yesterday.

Human rights workers and families of victims suspect death squads from either the Shi'ite Muslim majority or the Sunni Arab minority have been carrying out executions of political or sectarian enemies. Bodies have turned up in rivers, in back streets, and in refuse pits in recent months, and the killers are almost never found. The numbers found so far total in the hundreds.
boston.com

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