THE TRUTH UNCOVERED

Table of Contents

I. Summary

II. Recommendations

To political, religious, and other community leaders in Iraq

To the U.S. Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance

To U.S. and coalition forces

To donors, nongovernmental and governmental agencies, and U.N. agencies

To the U.N. Security Council

To the special representative of the U.N. secretary-general

III. Background: Repression of the 1991 Uprising

IV. Discovery of the Mass Graves at Al-Mahawil

V. Failure of the U.S. and Coalition Forces to Support Exhumations

VI. Consequences of the Failure to Provide Forensic Assistance

VII. The Victims

VIII. A Survivor

IX. Witnesses to the Al-Mahawil Arrests and Detentions

X. Witnesses to the Executions

XI. Establishing Accountability for the Mass Murder

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