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A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task. A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for a laboratory to be genetically checked against blood samples from relatives of the disappeared.The site near the central shrine city of Najaf is one of many in a country that suffered through more than four decades of bloody conflict and turmoil.

From Saddam to IS: Iraq still exhuming mass graves

Was actually a really, really good experience. you enjoyed it? almost, in a funny kind of way i did, because that last stretch isn't the most difficult piece of cave, it's reasonably spacious. there were a lot of people there. and they'd kind of let... i think they'd let anyone who wanted to, who had taken part earlier on in the rescue, join in for that last bit. so there were masses of people. i'll probably never see that many people in a cave again, and they were sort of, you know, forming this big sort of human line, passing the stretcher from person to person. and, you know, i can sort of ...

music: “The Sweet Hots” by Blue Dot Sessions] Ó Tuama: I think this poem presents the realization that language to refer to people who are in partnerships with each other is, on the one hand, functional, so that you can talk to somebody at the end of the phone line and say, “No, no, it wasn’t me. It was my wife, or my husband,” in a way that that’s going to make sense. And so there’s the functionality of that. And yet, this poem also highlights the fact that even functionalities need to be sufficient to recognize love in public.