The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq has unveiled a Mass Grave Strategic Plan, in an effort to grapple with the wreckage of Saddam Hussein's genocide.

According to the CPA, the plan is aimed at both helping grieving families, as well as providing accountability and justice. The plan was developed with Iraqis, and will focus on several atrocities, including, but not limited to:

*The 1983 attack against Kurdish citizens belonging to the Barzani tribe, 8,000 of whom were rounded up by the regime in northern Iraq and executed in deserts at great distances from their homes.

*The 1988 Anfal campaign, during which as many as 182,000 people disappeared. Most of the men were separated from their families and were executed in deserts in the west and southwest of Iraq. The remains of some of their wives and children have also been found in mass graves.

*Chemical attacks against Kurdish villages from 1986 to 1988, including the Halabja attack, when the Iraqi Air Force dropped sarin, VX and tabun chemical agents on the civilian population, killing 5,000 people immediately and causing long-term medical problems, related deaths, and birth defects among the progeny of thousands more.

*The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shi’a Muslims after the Shi’a uprising at the end of the Gulf war, in which tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in such regions as Basra and Al-Hillah were killed.

*The 1991 Kurdish massacre, which targeted civilians and soldiers who fought for autonomy in northern Iraq after the Gulf war.

A key part of the plan, the CPA said, includes training and assisting Iraqis with the tasks needed to handle the graves, and the remains of the victims.