article_snippet.sent: The remains will be sent back to Baghdad for DNA tests to establish identify, said Ali Tahir, a director in the Iraqi morgue who was supervising the digging and extraction.
article_snippet.sent: Once inside the compound, Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militias were separated into smaller groups, executed and buried in mass graves, The solider told Damon.
article_snippet.sent: On Monday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said revenge is not the way to deal with the discovery of the bodies.
article_snippet.sent: Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said several people involved in the killings have been detained.
article_snippet.sent: Families of Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militias had been demanding answers from the Iraqi government about what happened.
article_snippet.sent: Damon said Iraqi officials told Iraqi it may take weeks or months to exhume the bodies.
article_snippet.sent: The families gave DNA samples to the Iraqi Ministry of Health last year so authorities would be able to match authorities to unidentified bodies the government may find.