December 2, 2017 11:20 PM

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Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of Iraq

Iraqi paramilitary forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians, including women and children, in an area home to the Yazidi religious minority. <br/><br/>In 2014, IS militant group killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the community to abuse them as sex slaves.<br/>'<br/>The Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance said, it had found a mass grave with the bodies of 20 women and about 40 children in the village of Kabusi, south of Sinjar. <br/><br/>Elsewhere, in the Jazira residential complex, also south of Sinjar, 80 other bodies, mostly Yazidis, were discovered. <br/>'<br/>Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led coalition against IS captured Sinjar in November 2015 before Iraqi security forces took control of the region in October. <br/><br/>As government troops have advanced across Iraq they have uncovered dozens of mass graves holding hundreds of bodies in areas that fell under the IS militant group's brutal rule.<br/><br/><br/>

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