Iraq’s Martyrs’ Day Honors Its War Dead
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — The government honored its dead in the six-year-long Persian Gulf War on Monday with the tolling of bells, dawn prayers in mosques and mass meetings in government offices, factories and schools.
Iraq has not published figures of its war dead, but official estimates put casualties on both sides at more than 500,000.
Dec. 1 is Martyrs’ Day in Iraq, marking what Baghdad calls the massacre by Iran of hundreds of Iraqi prisoners of war on the southern battle front in 1981.
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