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1631 -HQ-1462938 27 year-old ABBAS MUHAMMAD OBAID, an agricultural worker, and 29 year-old a soldier. age 67, another_unel f his father, was arrested as he came home i : a 30 year-old teacher, and a farmer cousin whose age he were also arrested. At the Al-Mahawil mass grave, identified the remains of ABBAS MUHAMMAD OBAID and HADI OBAID HUSSEIN based on the identity documents found on their remains. He believed that his other relatives were also buried in the same mass grave because they all were arrested and “disappeared” on the same day. , a 46 year-old worker, and his son, a soldier, were arrested and “disappeared” on March 12, 1991, as they came home from his shop in Al-Hillah. A second son, 16 at the time of the arrest, told HRW that he was in the car with his father and brother when they were stopped at a checkpoint operated by the General Security (al-Amn al-~Am): “the Amn had the names of my father and brother, and said they needed to investigate them.” identified the remains of his father at the Al-Mahawil mass grave based on identity documents found on his remains and was still searching for his brother’s remain interview. [HRW interview wehp May 14, 2003] KHALID HASSAN KHUDAYYIR, age 13, and his 33 year-old cousin, FUAD “ABD AL-HUSSEIN KADHIM, left their native village of Albu Alwan and walked toward the nearby city of Al-Hillah to purchase food on March 4, 1991. FUAD “ABD AL-HUSSEIN KADHIM had been a soldier two years before the 1991 Uprising but had returned to civilian life. The two young men disappeared and for years the family had no information about their fate. Their bodies were found at the Al-Mahawil ma j a documents. [HRW interview 2 May 15, 2003] Many more families still searching for their missing relatives told HRW similar stories of unresolved “disappearances.” a 45 year-old woman, was typical. Her 14 yéar-o6 son, went missing on March 7, 1991, after she had asked him to go fetch some water from the river in Al-Hillah’s Bab Al-Hussein neighborhood. When she asked the soldiers stationed on a nearby bridge about him, they threatened to shoot her and ordered her to leave. She never heard again of her son and failed to locate his remains after looking through hundreds of bags containing human remains at the 84