Legal Document
Law on the Protection of Mass Graves, Iraq - Mass Graves Affairs Law no 5 for 2006 as amended
Author
N/A
Publication Year
2016
Region
Near and Middle East
Thematic Area
Law & Policies
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Forensics
Topic
Religious Aspects
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Recovery of remains / Excavation / Exhumation
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Management of the Dead
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Identification
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Criminal Justice
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Burial Site / Mass Grave
Access
Open access
With a view to facilitating the task of locating the mass graves whose crimes were committed by the defunct regime, to return their remains to their first of kin with ceremonies befitting their sacrifices, to regulate the process of opening them according to the Sharia-based rules and humanitarian values, to protect them against loitering, exhumation, and random exploration, to identify the identities of the victims buried therein, to preserve the criminal evidence and submit them to the judiciary to facilitate their task in proving the responsibility of the perpetrators for the genocide crimes, and illegal burial and other crimes perpetrated against the victims, this law has been promulgated.
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