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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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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LODZ, Poland  - Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Relatives wandered among rows and rows of plastic body bags at a morgue yesterday, searching for loved ones who had died at the end of a three-day siege by Chechen rebels the day before.
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Ukraine on Saturday reburied  some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police over  several years up to the Second World War and left in mass  graves at a site near the capital.
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A mass grave containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in an underground prison north of the Afghan capital, the BBC reported early Friday.
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Forensic experts have unearthed 372 bodies from two mass graves in Bosnia, suspected victims of Serb atrocities during the 1992-95 war.
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BAGHDAD - American and Iraqi investigators say they&#39;ve unearthed a mass grave in a northern Iraqi village. So far, they have uncovered more than 100 bodies in one trench near Hatra, where nine trenches have been located.
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OSWIECIM, Poland -- At first, the red-brick barracks look almost respectable, numbered like normal houses along tree-lined paths. But then the gas chamber reveals itself through the wintry fog, and the death wall where prisoners were stripped and shot, and the soil and ponds still full of teeth and crumbled bones from incinerated corpses.
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's euthanasia program.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.
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Forensic experts have exhumed 249 bodies from a mass grave in northeastern Bosnia containing victims of the country's devastating 1992-95 war, an official said Thursday.
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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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The remains are being unearthed as part of an investigation looking for evidence to use against Saddam Hussein in his future trial.
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The bodies of eight Ukrainian soldiers and one Kazakh killed in an explosion in Iraq are returned to Kiev.
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U.N. investigators have found a mass  grave in an army camp in Congo's eastern Ituri district  containing around 30 bodies, including women and children, who  appeared to have been executed, a spokesman said on Friday.