(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 28 AGO - "The remains of about 250 victims,
people murdered and inflicted, almost all civilians with an
average age of twenty," have been identified in a natural cavity
in the Kočevski area Rog in Slovenia. The Union of Istrians
reported on its Facebook page, specifying that the news broke
during a press conference by the "State Commission that deals
with the killings carried out by the communists in 1945."
"The chasm lies in the area between Veliki Rog and Stari žag
in the neighborhood of an old partisan hospital, and the
investigators found the remains at a depth of 14 meters," said
the coordinator of the recovery operation, archaeologist Uroš
Košir, the Union of Istrians reported. "Zdravko Bučar, president
of the caving club, explained that the authorities gave their
permit to excavation inside the cavity at the end of May, the
first descent occurred at the beginning of July."
The anthropological analysis, the Union of Istrians added,
showed that "more than a hundred children between the age of 15
and 17 were murdered, and at least 5 are women. According to
Košir, those investigating found a large amount of ammunition in
the chasm and along the outer edges, which was proof that the
killings occurred on the spot. The analysis of the incoming and
outgoing wounds found on the skulls showed that the killers used
automatic rifles."
The head of the police investigation, Pavel Jamnik - the post
reads - said that by crossing data and testimonies on the
partisan activity in that area, the Ozna, the Yugoslav secret
police, and in particular its "operational" arm, the Knoj
(Korpus narodne obrambe Jugoslavije), or the People's Defense
Corps of Yugoslavia, should be held responsible for the
massacre. (ANSA).
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