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On 18 December 2024, a mass grave was uncovered by Syrian White Helmets in the Damascus suburb of Sayyidah Zaynab, containing the human remains of at least 21 people. The mass grave was located in a predominantly Shia Islam neighborhood close to the Sayyida Zaynab Mosque, at a site used by Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militia groups prior to ...
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution , [ 1 ] although an exact definition is not unanimously agreed upon.
New satellite images have revealed mass graves being assembled for the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey.. On 6 February, a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks struck ...
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They also discovered a note from 1634 detailing a plague outbreak that killed more than 15,000 people in 1632-1633, which says almost 2,000 people were buried near St. Sebastian Spital, the site ...
Interpretive signage at the massacre site, with the 1999 monument seen in the background. There have been several remembrances of the Mountain Meadows Massacre including commemorative observances, the building of monuments and markers, and the creation of associations and other groups to help promote the massacre's history and ensure protection of the massacre site and grave sites.
Timeframe which grave was dug Notes 113: Samawah: 2005: 1980-1988: Victims were kurds most of whom were women, children and teenagers [5] 492: Al Diwaniyah: 2011: 1988: Victims were kurds, likely part of the Anfal campaign [6] 3,115: Al-Mahawil: 2003: 1991: A collection of three mass graves in the southern part of Iraq.