article_snippet.sent: Iraqi forensic teams have described how Iraqi forensic teams wept as Iraqi forensic teams began to excavate 12 graves, believed to be the final resting place of as many as 1,700 soldiers killed in cold blood by ISIS last summer.
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi forensic teams began the gruesome task of uncovering the bodies of the young army recruits of Camp Speicher, slaughtered by the Sunni ISIS militants as the Sunni ISIS militants surged across northern Iraq for the 'crime' of being Shi'ite.
article_snippet.sent: 12 graves were found last Wednesday on the late Saddam Hussein's presidential compound .
article_snippet.sent: But now it seems they final resting place may have at last been discovered, after 'dozens' of ID cards belonging to the army cadets were found at the late Saddam Hussein's presidential compound last Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: Today, the first of the 12 mass graves on the banks of the Tigris River began to give up the 12 mass graves on the banks of the Tigris River terrible secrets, days after Islamic State's fighters were driven from the Tigris River by Iraqi forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries.
article_snippet.sent: Those who began digging up the corpses today described the scene as 'heartbreaking'.
article_snippet.sent: Final resting place: Initial investigations reveal these are the bodies of the young cadets, a worker has said .
highlights_snippet.sent: Graves were identified last week after 'dozens' of ID cards found nearby .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Forensic teams have already dug up 20 bodies and expect to find far more .
  