According to the Kurdish satellite television station KurdSat TV, approximately 25,000 Kurdish bodies have been found in mass graves in the Nugra Salman desert in Southern Iraq. The dead are believed to have been victims of the Anfal genocide, which took place in 1988. KurdSat TV reported that during the genocide victims were held in a Nugra Salman castle and 50 people were buried alive daily, including many women and children. The Anfal genocide operations were conducted by the Iraqi government in the late 1980
