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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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(Reuters) - Ireland is considering an inquiry into what the government called a "deeply disturbing" discovery of an unmarked graveyard at a former home run by the Roman Catholic Church where ...
One section is labelled as a mass grave site. A fire burned down a lumber mill, killing eleven men sleeping there at the time. Another section is labelled the children's section, due to the large number of children buried in Mount Moriah that died from the typhus, cholera and smallpox outbreaks. [4] Historical plaque for Hebrew Hill
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