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There are other mass graves in Uman, Bila Tserkva, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr. [11] 9,432 corpses were exhumed following the Vinnytsia massacre. [12] As in Russia and elsewhere, these sites keep appearing, e.g. a mass grave found in 2002 under the floor of a Ukrainian monastery. [13]
The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven. Since its 1789 establishment, 50 people have served as Vice President of the United States. Of these, 43 have died. The state with the most vice-presidential burial sites is New York with 10. Fifteen people have served as both president and as vice president.
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.
Alleged mass graves near Mariupol have been revealed through satellite images. The mass grave site could contain as many as 9,000 bodies, Ukrainian officials say.
The alleged mass grave site in the city of Qutayfah, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Damascus, is marked by trenches 6-7 meters (19-23 feet) deep, 3-4 meters wide, and 50-150 meters long ...
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So far, 210 separate mass graves have been identified by Polish and Ukrainian archaeologists working at the site. During the Soviet retreat in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, Red Army troops levelled the village. The mass grave site was discovered by the Germans along with many other such sites throughout the Soviet Union.
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.