Photos of Iranian prisoners in Iraq

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On 20 August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War came to an end with the UN ceasefire (Los Angeles Times 26 Dec. 1989). By mid-1988, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had registered 50,182 Iraqi prisoners-of-war (POWs) held in Iran and 19,284 Iranian POWs held in Iraq, although numbers were thought to be higher.

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