Mass grave found in Ukraine from WW II
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A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp, a Jewish community representative said Tuesday.
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UN investigators in DR Congo find mass graves with about 30 bodies in an army camp in the east of the country.
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The skeletal remains of 14 people believed to be victims of right-wing paramilitaries have been unearthed in a mass grave in southwest Colombia, authorities said Friday.
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KENYAN and British investigators have exhumed the remains of a woman as part of a probe into allegations that British soldiers had raped hundreds of Kenyan women in a region used as a military training ground for three decades.
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.The eight white caskets were lowered into new ground at the Defense Forces cemetery in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, foreign diplomats and World War II veterans.'We have fulfilled our duty and given these soldiers their final resting place,' Aaviksoo said after the hour-long ceremony. He said he hoped the reburial would prevent Russia from using the war grave issue in the future 'for provocations against the Republic of Estonia.' Read more
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Romanian authorities were responsible for the deportation and killing of more than 350,000 Jews during World War II, a new study shows.
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SULEIMANIYAH, Dec 29: Labourers digging the foundations for a new hospital in Kurdish northern Iraq uncovered a mass grave on Wednesday containing an estimated 60 bodies, local officials said.
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U.N. investigators have found a mass grave in an army camp in Congo's eastern Ituri district holding around 30 victims, including women and children, who appeared to have been executed, a spokesman said on Friday.
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Coalition forces found 26 bodies buried in mass graves and a bloodstained "torture complex" with chains hanging from walls and ceilings and a bed connected to an electrical system, the military said Wednesday.
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Forensic experts have unearthed 40 bodies from a newly discovered mass grave in eastern Bosnia believed to contain victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst post-World War II atrocity, an official ...
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A grave containing the remains of several thousand Jews executed by the Nazis is found in southern Ukraine.
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US-led war crimes investigators in Iraq yesterday unearthed a mass grave containing the bodies of men, women and children they hope will provide evidence to help convict Saddam Hussein of human rights atrocities.
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Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu.
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The remains of 11 people believed to be Jews killed in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi occupiers were buried Thursday in a ceremony hailed by Jewish leaders as a sign of the rekindled relationship ...
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GVOZDAVKA-1, Ukraine -- As children watched in the hot sunshine, a dozen rabbis scoured a Ukrainian village meadow for bones -- the fragmented remains of Jews systematically killed here during the Holocaust.
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Ukraine holds a national day of mourning for 170 people killed in a Russian plane crash, as the black boxes are found.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, whose father was detained at Flossenbuerg from December 1944 to April 1945, took part in the memorial service. via Ynetnews