WW2 mass graves found in Slovenia

A Slovenian government commission says a mass grave containing the remains of 15,000 people was discovered in Pohorje.

Izvor: Beta

Saturday, 11.08.2007.

15:36

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WW2 mass graves found in Slovenia

The remains were found in a former antitank trench in Areh, near Maribor, close to the Austrian border.

Most of the victims are said to be members of the withdrawing Chetnik and Ustasha forces from Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia.

They were taken prisoner and executed shortly after the war was over, in May and June 1945.

The executioners were members of a Partisan brigade commanded by Captain Rade Čolak.

Slovenian media say the commission believes the number of victims is likely even higher, and conclude that the crime may in fact have been the worst massacre in the post-Second World War history in Europe, where the death toll exceeded that of Srebrenica.

Croatian experts are taking part in the exhumations, as over 80 percent of the victims are though to be NDH soldiers.

There are no reports of any Serbian or Montenegrin officials attending.

Another mass grave, also in the Pohorje region, is believed to contain the remains of Slovenians marked by Partisans as German collaborators.

Local ethnic Germans were also murdered, imprisoned in Kidričevo prior to the executions.

The commission plans to open 19 other mass graves located in the vicinity of Maribor and Kidričevo.

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