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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. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Mass graves are usually created after many people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly for sanitation concerns.
People of Vinnytsia searching for relatives among the victims of the Vinnytsia massacre exhumed from a mass grave in 1943. In the final years of the USSR and after its dissolution in 1991, killing fields and burial sites were uncovered and memorialised across the countries of the former Soviet Union. [5]
A mass grave uncovered in al-Qutayfah in the countryside 25km north of Damascus emerged as the most substantial discovery by quantity, characterized by investigators as a centralized burial location for the Assad regime. Investigators estimated that the mass grave contained the human remains of at least 100,000 people. [7]
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.
A mass grave discovered last December in a suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people, Mexican authorities said Sunday.. Six of them ...
The cemetery has many distinct sections. There are four different sections in the graveyard labelled potter's field, where the graves of unknown people or settlers that came from Ingelside were buried without a stone or marker. One section is labelled as a mass grave site. A fire burned down a lumber mill, killing eleven men sleeping there at ...
Human remains found in at a mass grave site in Iraqi Kurdistan, July 15, 2005. Mass graves in Iraq are characterized as unmarked sites containing at least six bodies. Some can be identified by mounds of earth piled above the ground or as deep pits that appear to have been filled.
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.