(ANSA) - TRIESTE - The remains of 1,420 victims have been
exhumed in Slovenia from Huda Jama, a post-WWII communist mass
execution site in an abandoned mine near Celje, the Slovenian
state commission for covered-up mass grave said, adding that
over 600 such sites have been found in Slovenia.
The remains of 778 alleged Nazi collaborators from Huda Jama,
which was discovered in march 2009, have been buried at the
Dobrava memorial cemetery near Maribor. The bones of the
remaining victims are expected to be buried at Dobrava too,
after samplings for Dna analysis. The state commission does not
know how many people were buried at Huda Jama, with estimates
ranging around 2,500-5,000 bodies. Experts say most of the
victims were Croats and Slovenes who had been executed for
collaborating with the Nazis, often without trial. (ANSA).
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