WWII mass grave unearthed in Slovenia

A mass grave dating back to the Second World War has been unearthed in a mine near Laško, Slovenia.

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Thursday, 05.03.2009.

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A mass grave dating back to the Second World War has been unearthed in a mine near Lasko, Slovenia. Slovenian police announced that a large number of human remains, some 750 bodies, had been discovered on Tuesday in Barbarin Trench, buried under concrete. WWII mass grave unearthed in Slovenia Historian Mitja Ferenc, who has documented hidden mass graves in Slovenia, told Slovenian POP TV that the data would currently appear to suggest that the victims were killed in the place they were discovered, in a pit that was covered in 1942. Forensic specialist Joze Balazic said that tests so far suggested that the victims had been thrown into the manhole alive, as it could be seen from the remains that some had tried to force their way out. This grave was known about earlier, as Roman Ljeljak wrote about it in his book, but it has taken 18 years for the grave to be opened up. Ljeljak told Slovenian media that it was known exactly which partizan unit had killed these people—the 1st Slovenian National efense Division, 2nd Batallion, 3rd Brigade—and that the victims had been prisoners-of-war, including Slovenes, Croats, and maybe Serbs and Montenegrins too. The prisoners were driven at night time by train or lorry to the edge of Barbarin Trench, where they thrown in naked, with their hands tied. According to Ljeljak’s data, around 750 were thrown in, after which the trench was sealed with concrete. The Slovenian Labor and Family Ministry announced yesterday that there had been much talk of this grave after the war, and that, based on stories, in the absence of any documentation, around 12,000 people had been murdered at the mine between May and June 1945, just after the end of the war. The aforesaid mine leads to a number of other pits, which will take a few more months to reach, while Ljeljak has already brought criminal complaints against nine known perpetrators of these crimes, not only at Barbarin Trench, but also in Kosnice, near Celje, where victims were forced to dig their own graves and where around twenty children were slaughtered.

WWII mass grave unearthed in Slovenia

Historian Mitja Ferenc, who has documented hidden mass graves in Slovenia, told Slovenian POP TV that the data would currently appear to suggest that the victims were killed in the place they were discovered, in a pit that was covered in 1942.

Forensic specialist Jože Balažič said that tests so far suggested that the victims had been thrown into the manhole alive, as it could be seen from the remains that some had tried to force their way out.

This grave was known about earlier, as Roman Ljeljak wrote about it in his book, but it has taken 18 years for the grave to be opened up.

Ljeljak told Slovenian media that it was known exactly which partizan unit had killed these people—the 1st Slovenian National efense Division, 2nd Batallion, 3rd Brigade—and that the victims had been prisoners-of-war, including Slovenes, Croats, and maybe Serbs and Montenegrins too.

The prisoners were driven at night time by train or lorry to the edge of Barbarin Trench, where they thrown in naked, with their hands tied. According to Ljeljak’s data, around 750 were thrown in, after which the trench was sealed with concrete.

The Slovenian Labor and Family Ministry announced yesterday that there had been much talk of this grave after the war, and that, based on stories, in the absence of any documentation, around 12,000 people had been murdered at the mine between May and June 1945, just after the end of the war.

The aforesaid mine leads to a number of other pits, which will take a few more months to reach, while Ljeljak has already brought criminal complaints against nine known perpetrators of these crimes, not only at Barbarin Trench, but also in Košnice, near Celje, where victims were forced to dig their own graves and where around twenty children were slaughtered.

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