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Bookmark or Share- Mass grave - WikipediaThe mass grave of the German troops who fell in the Battle of Hyvinkää in 1918 during the Finnish Civil War in Hyvinkää, Finland. Mass or communal burial was a common practice before the development of a dependable crematory chamber by Ludovico Brunetti in 1873. In ancient Rome waste and dead bodies of the poor were dumped into mass graves ...
- Rights expert urges greater protection for mass graves: proof of ...28 October 2020 Human Rights. More action must be taken to protect mass graves, which provide proof of “heinous events” that must never be forgotten, an independent UN human rights expert has said, in an appeal to the international community. Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, called for greater support on Tuesday ...
- UN expert: International community must do more to protect mass graves ...“Mass graves are places of evidence crucial to effective pursuit of formal justice,” Agnès Callamard, UN special rapporteur on summary executions, told the General Assembly as she presented her annual report. “They hold the remains of those denied identity in death. They are spaces of intimate sorrow for loved ones.
- Nearly a Century After a Tulsa Massacre, the Search for Burial Sites ...Locating possible mass graves has required the use of forensic science, along with sparse records and “stories that have been handed down through generations,” as a state-commissioned report ...
- Mass Graves Identified in Syria Could Hold Evidence of War CrimesThe first mass grave site his team worked at, from mid-2011 until early 2013, was in a civilian cemetery in Najha, a town south of Damascus, he said. At first, he oversaw a few laborers who buried ...
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