In the spring of 1984, during the Iran-Iraq war the Battle of The Marshes occured. Iran soldiers were sitting in boats in the marshes. So Iraq soldiers lated electrical wires throughout the marsh in the middle of the night. The Iraq soldiers set off enough gun fire to force the Iranians in to the water. Once they were in the water, Iraq turned on the electricity to the wires electrocuting the Iranian soldiers.

The Iraqi soldiers then gathered the dead and stacked them five feet wide and five feet high. The line of dead soldiers was sprinkled with lime and a foot of desert sand poured on top creating a road through the marsh.