Another mass grave of murdered political prisoners discovered in Baghdad. (Hat tip: Susan.)

Nearly 1,000 political prisoners slaughtered by the Iraqi regime are buried in secret graves at a cemetery on the outskirts of Baghdad, news agency AFP has reported.

Other secret cemeteries in the city could take the number of dead to 6,000 , the agency said.

“The Ba’ath regime has gone and now we can talk freely with you,” the manager, Mohymeed Aswad, told the agency.

“They are all political. Ten to 15 bodies would arrive at a time from the Abu Ghraib prison and we would bury them here.”

Mohammad Moshan Mohammad, gravedigger at the cemetery, said the dead were mainly political prisoners.

Those buried in the last three years had been shot or hanged and were males and females aged between 15 and 30.