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In search of closure, Syrians work to unearth the secrets of Assad’s mass graves

Syria Direct 15 Dec 2025
In the year since the Assad regime fell, at least 66 mass graves have been found across Syria, including recent discoveries in Reef Dimashq, northern Homs and Hama.
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Gaza Civil Defense recovers over 30 bodies from mass grave at Al-Shifa hospital

PIC 11 Dec 2025
Gaza’s Civil Defense crews have recovered the bodies of more than 30 martyrs from a mass grave, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday ... During the recovery operations, a new mass ...
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Bangladesh mass grave from 2024 uprising exhumed with UN support

South China Morning Post 07 Dec 2025
Bangladeshi police began exhuming a mass grave on Sunday that is believed to contain around 114 ...
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Bangladesh begins exhuming mass grave from 2024 uprising

The New Arab 07 Dec 2025
Bangladeshi police began exhuming on Sunday a mass grave believed to contain around 114 unidentified victims of a mass uprising that toppled autocratic former prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year.
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A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

CNN 30 Nov 2025
A blue school bag Just a stone’s throw from a main road, the Chemmani gravesite is one of more than 20 mass graves identified in Sri Lanka ... For decades, the mass grave remained hidden until ...
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Syrian authorities discover 4 mass graves north of Homs

Anadolu Agency 25 Nov 2025
Syrian authorities on Tuesday discovered four mass graves containing dozens of remains north of Homs in central Syria. An Interior Ministry statement said that the four mass graves were found on ...
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Mass graves found in Homs neighborhood

Syrian Arab News Agency 25 Nov 2025
The Syrian Ministry of Interior confirmed the discovery of four mass graves on al-Sittin Street, north of Homs city, during excavation work conducted by local civilians.
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Relatives of disappeared brace themselves as bodies are exhumed from notorious mass grave in Colombia

AOL 24 Nov 2025
The area, of strategic importance for drugs and weapons trafficking, had long been trapped in a cycle of bloodshed ... “I can feel it.”. La Escombrera, a former construction landfill, is one of the most notorious mass grave sites in urban Latin America.
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Desperate search for missing Syrians reveals mass graves

The Buffalo News 23 Nov 2025
DAMASCUS, Syria — The families of the missing no longer come by the dozens each day to the Najha cemetery, looking for the remains of their loved ones and the closure that could bring ....
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Wall street journal: Assad turned Syria into a mass grave

Syrian Arab News Agency 23 Nov 2025
The discovery of mass graves across Syria continues to reveal the magnitude of atrocities committed by the deposed regime against the Syrian people, who rose against decades of authoritarian rule.
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After Syria’s 14-Year Civil War, a Search for Victims Leads to Mass Graves

New York Times 21 Nov 2025
More than 100,000 people disappeared during the 13-year civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites ... .
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Tanzania: Investigation Links Tanzanian Police to Deadly Post-Election Crackdown, Possible Mass Graves

All Africa 21 Nov 2025
Nairobi -- Tanzanian police used live ammunition against protesters and may have buried victims in unmarked graves following a disputed presidential election in October, according to an exclusive investigation by CNN ....
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Dharmasthala Mass Grave Probe: SIT Names Activists As Accused In 4,000-Page Charge Sheet

MENA FN 20 Nov 2025
(MENAFN - IANS) Bengaluru, Nov 20 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sensational mass grave case at the Dharmasthala Hindu pilgrimage centre in Karnataka is set to file a ... .
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