signs of torture and mutilation

Iraq's Valley of Peace helps overflowing morgues - Yahoo! News

Fri Jul 28, 7:21 AM ET

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Shi'ites from all over the world aspire to be buried in Najaf's sacred Valley of Peace cemetery, but the dozens of Iraqi corpses brought there every Friday bear witness only to the carnage sweeping the country.
Baghdad morgues fill up so quickly that victims of Iraq's sectarian
violence cannot be kept for long and unidentified corpses must be moved
elsewhere.

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• "There are usually signs of torture and mutilation like the drilling of eyes and skulls, or severed limbs," he said.
• "I
  will never forget that horrible scene when one corpse's head was cut
  off and replaced with a dog's head." Muslims consider dogs to be dirty
  animals. Most of the victims of violence are bound, a trademark sign of
  sectarian killings.

Seventy-five bodies arrived at the cemetery this Friday.

"Most
of the bodies were bound by chains so we always have to keep a cutter
nearby to cut them. Most bodies were beheaded and they have a lot of
holes in the head and face," said cemetery worker Riad Ahmed.