Martyrs Foundation: Following DNA testing, the bodies of 1233 Speicher martyrs were given to their families

INA-  Baghdad


The Martyrs Foundation confirmed on Thursday that 1233 of the bodies of the Speicher martyrs were handed over to their families after the results of DNA, it showed that thousands of mass graves of the exterminated regime simulate the systematic killing of the Speicher massacre.   

The Director General of the Legal Department of the Martyrs Foundation, Tariq Al-Mandalawi, said during a seminar held by Al-Nahrain University on the Speicher massacre and under the title (Speicher is a decade of sadness), and attended by the reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The crime occurred with the same tools and remnants of the Baath criminals, there are thousands of mass graves of the Baathist regime that simulate the method of systematic killing and in the same manner as in the Speicher massacre."


He added that "the crime that affected unarmed young people affiliated with the Ministry of Defense was purely sectarian motives and that it is classified as crimes of genocide and against humanity," pointing out that "the Martyrs Foundation through the Department of Mass Graves and Missing Persons Affairs has opened 17 graves in the presidential palaces and found the bodies of 1233 were handed over to their families after identifying the results of DNA through forensic medicine," and indicated that "the Foundation is one of the psychological treatments for those families by trying to overcome administrative difficulties to reach their legitimate rights," stressing that "the crime will remain a shame of its perpetrators throughout history." 

 The reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA) stated that "the conference was attended by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Firas Abdul Razzaq, and a group of a professor of the Faculty of Law and a large group of students of the Faculty of Law," noting that "the student of the Faculty of Law, Amani Ali Yasser, presented a social and legal working paper that clarified some concepts and interest in the psychological aspect and addressing the psychological effects of the families of the victims of the Speicher martyrs."


The Dean of the Faculty of Law explained that "this scientific edifice will always be concerned with legal clarifications of terrorist crimes, holding seminars to remember the country's neighbors and martyrs, and calling for close ranks and cohesion to reach a safe and stable homeland."