Slovenia Begins Burial of Victims of Communist Mass Killings AFP
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001dmT55KxsRpTTxra6Z1-7WYhPhXT_ERywg9ySNAU2HDQ8 ORjbXu58ILugDFU2bSJrpMLUXsXG2f-ZkhU5amF8Cj50f27KrwmDQpAsL741tvde9DgomAEqTfbB B9tRigAcWSQ-WuKs45Ik8domP3oMvk3emb-WQvJCakjdUoiFlxpePQLwUuSh5_bASCMI4s0-4LNr x03PZDrn-AUhoxJHSBm9p2UbAISFyZDGl0_cSVEDWmbaTZe9IOk-ywf02GE31x_7VVUX0ek=&c=E xqCnCNdjZRSrOvTYdr8RZBYVmj9-bJz29w0fGsERwJ_BDzWyeSfDg==&ch=4haOmFdDX2JrtWdeF WccC8gUWOqKzLHS5WfdbD9qIWMkerprdRdWUw==> https://www.yahoo.com/news/slovenia-starts-burial-wwii-mass-killing-victims- 184421388.html Slovenia on Thursday started burying the remains of some 800 alleged Nazi collaborators killed by communist forces in the aftermath of World War II, and discovered in a giant mine in 2009. "It is our human and state duty to bury in a civilised way the victims of war and post-war killings," Slovenian President Borut Pahor said at the burial ceremony in the northern city of Maribor ... The ceremony [is] the first in a series of state burials expected to continue until the end of 2017 ... Experts say most of the victims were Croats and Slovenes who had been executed for collaborating with the Nazis, often without trial. Authorities believe the mass grave may have contained up 2,500 bodies ... A special government commission has so far registered 700 possible mass grave sites containing up to 15,000 bodies in Slovenia ...
