Funerals held in Iraq for ISIS victims who were excavated from mass graves

 78 persons who were killed by ISIS outside the northern city of Mosul during the extremists' occupation of the city in 2014 had their burial in Iraq on Tuesday.

According to Dhia Kareem, director of the Foundation of Martyrs' Mass Graves Department, the victims were among the 605 people who were found in a mass grave over the course of the previous two years.

Before ISIS fighters seized the Badush Prison, they were inmates there.

"The process of opening the graves took more than two years and resulted in the removal of 605 bodies," Mr. Kareem stated in a statement. He stated that 204 whole bodies and 401 body parts have been found.

He claimed that because they had been exposed to things like floods and climate change, "they were turned over to the Medical Legal Directorate for identification."

Only 78 remains have been found to yet, and a burial procession was held at the Martyr Monument in Baghdad for them.

The wooden coffins were transported in military trucks while draped in Iraqi flags. As they bid farewell, grieving relatives carried photos of their loved ones.

Hundreds of members of the security forces and civilians were killed after ISIS took control of Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, as well as other strongholds in the north and west of the nation in June 2014.

The prisoners from the Badush jail outside of Mosul were among them.

In October 2014, survivors informed the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) that gunmen loaded up to 1,500 prisoners onto pickup trucks and transported them to a remote area of desert two kilometers away from the jail.

Shiite people were made to kneel on the brink of a ravine before being shot dead with machine guns, according to an HRW study based on interviews with 15 survivors.

They were divided from a few hundred Sunnis and a few Christians who were eventually released. According to the allegation, some Yazidi and Kurdish detainees were also slain. The inmates were doing time for offenses that included nonviolent offenses as well as murder and assault.