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By bne Gulf bureau A recent announcement of a mass grave discovery in Babylon has rekindled hope for a young man who was just a year old when his father disappeared during the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein’s regime, Al Sumeria reported on May 14. Mass graves from the era of Saddam Hussein’s regime are a grim legacy in Iraq, with numerous sites having been uncovered since his overthrow in 2003. Human rights organisations and investigators have documented around 270 mass graves across the country, many of which contain victims of Saddam’s brutal crackdowns against various groups, i…

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