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Subject: COMMANDERS SITREP 78                                            

Unit: VII CORPS   

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box  ID: BX000269

Folder Title: DAILY STAFF JOURNALS-6 APR 91-2                                                                 

Document Number:         18

Folder Seq  #:         71





                  UNCLASSIFIED


           INCIDENTS IN THE VII CORPS AREA OF OPERATIONS IN THE PAST 24
           HOURS.            5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(1)

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                                                                ON 30 MARCH,
           SAW MANY KURDISH MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN BEING HERDED INTO A

           BUILDING, WHERE THEY ALLEGEDLY WERE TORTURED AND STARVED.

           ANOTHER SOURCE, A DESERTER FROM 449TH BDE/56TH ID/II CORPS,

           CLAIMS THAT ON 5 MARCH HIS UNIT WENT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN


           BASRAH SEARCHING FOR GUNS AND AMMUNITION. THOSE MEN WHO WERE

           FOUND TO HAVE WEAPONS WERE EXECUTED. THEIR HOMES WERE THEN


           BULLDOZED OR BURNED TO THE GROUND. TWO WEEKS LATER IN NEARBY AL

           TANNUMAH, GOVERNMENT FORCES USED EXCESSIVE FORCE IN RETAKING THE

           TOWN. AFTER BRINGING .-ART-I-LIERY,;,-TAN-K AND -HELI-COPTER PTRE -ON AL-"-

           TANNUMAH, IRAQI TROOPS THEN BULLDOZED THOSE BUILDINGS LEFT

           STANDING. A SOURCE'S UNCLE CLAIMS TO HAVE WITNESSED ONE HOME

           BEING DESTROYED WITH THREE LITTLE GIRLS STILL INSIDE. ANOTHER

           EPW FROM IST AD SECTOR STATES THAT ON 14 MARCH, IRAQI HELICOPTERS

           DROPPED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS, NAPALM AND MUSTARD GAS ON NAJAF.

           SPECIAL SECURITY FORCES LATER TIED UP THE SOURCE'S FRIEND AND


           BURIED HIM ALIVE. ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE, SECURITY FORCES

           PUSHED RESISTANCE MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN TIED UP INTO WATER, WHERE


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