How are the Iraqi dead cared for? Are there "Mass Graves"?

[Bandit]

We are killing thousands of people in a short amount of time. How are they being handled? Are there "Mass Graves" or are there a steady ongoing funeral processions taking place daily? Have we killed as many yet as were killed by Saddam's regime? Are they burning the bodies or burying them?

[sniffa]

1. proper buriaL done by haLiburton

they received the no-bid contract for the 'graving'.

[goclark]

3. Kidding right?

I would not put anything pass the greedy Halliburton however.

[Greylady]

2. In Fallujah

They have been burying their dead in a football field and in their backyards.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. here's a pic of the soccer field mass grave from mid-April:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/04/12/falluja_graves,0.jpg

Flight from a town where sports fields are graveyards

In Falluja, it's the soccer field that haunts them. Ali Mohammed Nasser, father of six, made himself go and look through the fence before packing his family into a minibus to belt across the desert to Baghdad.

Cross-legged on a cushion in a relative's home, he stared ahead: "There are many shallow graves - maybe 400. The bodies of women, old men and children. Some already buried; in others, the bodies of three children at a time were being cremated. A man who was burning the bodies was shot as he worked - I didn't see who killed him."

...

The director of Falluja's general hospital, Rafie Al-Issawi, told reporters that the estimate of 600 was based on the number of bodies received at four clinics in the town and reports of the dead being buried at two sports fields and in people's homes.

But US marine Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne said in Falluja: "What I think you will find is 95 per cent of them were military age males that were killed in the fighting. The marines are trained to be precise . . . the fact that there are 600 goes back to the fact that the marines are very good at what they do."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621902273.html

[moondust]

5. Why no media coverage? n/t

[riverwalker]

6. they use bulldozers

we did it in the first Gulf War for mass burials. This time, we had lots of bulldozers over there in anticipation of mass burials of our own troops in case of bio/chem attacks. I am sure we are using them again to bury Iraqis. Unlike this account, from Ramsey Clarke's book "War Crimes" I hope they will at least make sure they are dead before they bury them.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/Charges-WC.html
""War is hell," was Defense Department spokesman Pete Williams' comment confirming that huge U.S. Army earth movers had buried alive up to 8,000 Iraqi soldiers. By Army accounts they were in trenches and desperately trying to surrender and incapable of mounting any resistance. This revelation, recently reported-as these lines were written-by Patrick Sloyan in the New York Newsday , demonstrates yet another violation of international conventions on combat. The resulting mass graves violate even the responsibility of the commanding officer to attempt to provide an accounting for the dead among enemy soldiers. The Pentagon has refused even to notify the Red Cross about the location of these mass graves."