Iraqi authorities organized a symbolic funeral on Tuesday to bury the bodies of 78 individuals executed in 2014 by the ISIS terrorist group.
The public memorial was held to commemorate the tragic martyrdom of these victims after their bodies were found in a mass grave near Badush prison, and were identified using DNA testing.
In June 2014, during the occupation of large areas in northern Iraq and neighboring Syria, ISIS terrorists attacked the prison and took about 600 Shia prisoners by trucks to a valley and executed them.
Although the mass grave was found in 2017, it was exhumed for a slow and tedious process of DNA testing to identify the remains of the victims.
This is one of more than 200 mass graves the extremist group left behind in its rampage of brutality, according to the United Nations.
It is worth mentioning that, in addition to mass graves related to ISIS crimes, Iraq continues to discover mass graves related to the Saddam regime, which was overthrown after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
