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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 the fall of the Assad regime. Many of the human remains were found in small pieces or in incomplete fragments.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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Rwanda has made it a criminal offense to withhold information about a previously unknown mass grave. For years perpetrators of the 1994 genocide, including those who served prison terms and were ...