Greer Leonard
8th period

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-paving--mass-graves-1988-killings-amnesty-international/29200805.html

Iran has created mass graves holding over 5,000 victims each of the Iraq-Iran war, and just recently began paving over them to create buildings and roads. These mass graves were used in the 1980's to hold victims of political genocide. The only reason this war ended in the first place was because of a UN involvement to create a cease-fire between the two middle eastern countries, thus ending the need to have these mass graves. Iran is moving forward and burying their past for progress in the future, but the death toll that lies beneath their newly paved roads will last longer than a lifetime.