Mayor and Yazidis say they saw body parts of older women from village of Kocho whom Isis separated from younger womenA mass grave believed to contain the remains of more than 70 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority was discovered east of Sinjar town after Kurdish forces claimed victory over Islamic State militants in the area,the mayor and locals believe said. The insurgents overran the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar in north-west Iraq in August 2014, systematically killing, and capturing and enslaving thousands of its inhabitants in what the United Nations has said may believe constituted attempted genocide.
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Source: theguardian.com