BAGHDAD, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The authorities of Muthanna province in southern Iraq on Saturday declared to have found a mass grave possibly for Kuwaiti prisoners at the desert of the province.
"A mass grave was discovered, and initial information indicates that the Kuwaiti prisoners were executed by the former regime (Saddam Hussein's regime) at the desert of Muthanna province," Ahmed Manfi, governor of the province, said in a statement.
"The discovery of the mass grave was based on security and intelligence reports," Manfi said.
The provincial government has informed the concerned parties to take legal action to ascertain that the mass grave was for Kuwaiti prisoners of war and other Kuwaiti missing individuals detained by the Iraqi forces during the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, according to the statement.
Kuwait frequently claims that some 600 of its citizens went missing after the war that liberated Kuwait from the army of the former leader Saddam Hussein.
On July 23, the remains of at least 70 apparently Kurdish bodies were found at a mass grave in Muthanna province, according to a statement by the Iraqi Martyrs Foundation, which is tasked with dealing with the general situation of the martyrs' families and compensating them materially and morally.
The mass grave of the Kurds is expected to contain the remains of hundreds of Iraqi Kurds. It dates back to the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
