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In Mexico, 35 bodies found in mass graves

More than 40,000 people have gone missing and are presumed dead since Mexico's war on drugs was militarized with federal troops in late 2006.

May 12, 2019

Dozens of bodies found in Raqqa mass grave: Official

Dozens of bodies, including those of jihadis and civilians, have been found in a mass grave in the former Islamic State group stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, a local official said.

April 22, 2018

Two wartime mass graves discovered in Bosnia

The remains of potentially dozens of victims from Bosnia’s 1990s civil war, most likely Bosnian Muslims, have been exhumed from two newly-discovered mass graves, the Missing Persons Institute said. One of the graves was discovered in the mountainous area of Koricanske Stijene in central Bosnia, where more than 200 civilian men were executed by Serb …

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September 14, 2017