The identification of victims and an anthropological examination of mass graves are essential steps toward the documenting of scientific findings and the pursuit of justice. Exhumation, anthropological analysis, and individual victim identification were the primary objectives of this research project, which was conducted in a mass grave in Busaya which is located in the Muthanna governorate in south of Iraq.

The inquiry involved the uncovering of the bodies of the victims as well as the excavation of their graves. After interviewing witnesses and collecting their testimony, researchers finally got out into the field to begin their investigation. After locating the locations, excavations were carried out on them using the protocols that are well accepted in the scientific community. In the laboratory of the medico-legal institution in Erbil, the leftover skeletons were examined in order to establish the gender of the individual, as well as their age and other details.

The grave included 100 bodies, 100 (100%) were males. The results of age estimation reported that the number of young adult bodies 20-30 years old were 40 cases (40%), while 17 cases (17%) was 30-40 aged victims, 10  (10%) was for 40-50 and 50-60 years’ ages. The rest included 2 (2%) for 15-20 years, and 1(1%) for 60-70 years’ age group of victims. The results of stature revealed that all cases had stature more than 166-170 cm. All the remained bones were recorded in detail for more documentation. These findings presented the results of an anthropological investigation into a vast Barzanian cemetery located in the Muthanna Afif-2 desert in the southern area of Iraq. Males at the age between 20-30 made up the vast majority (if not all) of those who lost their lives. After that takes samples for DNA to identification with family of victims.  

Yasin Kareem Amin was born in Sulaymani, Iraqi Kurdistan region, in 1963. He received the M.B.Ch.B degree in medicine from College of Medicine - Mosul University- Mosul in 1991, and the M.Sc. degree in anatomy and Histology – Salahaddin University 2002 College of Medicine. He completed his Ph.D. degree of embryology at Hawler Medical University in 2009. Yasin Kareem amin a distinguished of figure in embryology and laying the foundation for his subsequent specialization in embryology and assisted reproductive technologies. As an IVF specialist, he has made significant contributions to academic and scientific communities, playing a pivotal role in advancing reproductive medicine. Beside his qualifications in medicine, he graduated as forensic medicine and forensic anthropology (Forensic Anthropologist) in Bournemouth University 2005. He joined Hawler Medical University College of Medicine since 2002 Currently lecturer in different fields of anatomy, embryology and forensic anthropology. Yasin works all exhumations of mass graves in Iraq especially Kurdish mass graves in south of Iraq and genocide with the chemical bomb attack of Kurdish civilian people in Halabja and (ISIS) war. Afterword’s he spent twenty- five years as lecturer and researcher at Hawler Medical University College Of medicine and University Kurdistan of Hawler – College of medicine. He Owns 65 researches published in different journal impact, Scops, DOI Citation 100, Index 54 He also served as volunteer in my specialist doctor with peshmerga during (ISIS) war working on battlefield for over four years. He gained Professor academic title since 2021 and served as the general director of Medico legal institute (MLI) of Kurdistan Region 2005. He is now general director of Medical Research Center at Hawler Medical University, scientific research center. Yasin supervises a numbers of MSc students in Embryology and forensic medicine.