UN rights chief “horrified” by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson. Palestinian authorities reported finding hundreds of bodies in mass graves at Nasser Hospital in […]
Libya’s flood-ravaged Derna struggles to cope with thousands of corpses
Derna, LibyaReuters Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea. The World Health Organization and other aid groups urged authorities in Libya to stop burying […]
Mass graves found in east Congo village after M23 rebel retreat, HRW says
Reuters Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels allegedly executed scores of villagers and militia members between November and April and buried their bodies in mass graves, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, accusing Rwanda of backing the group. The Tutsi-led M23 staged a major offensive in Congo’s restive east last year, triggering an armed response […]
Confronting the past: Two decades after Saddam’s fall, Iraqis still haunted by disappearances
CHARLOTTE BRUNEAU, of Reuters, reports from Iraq, a country which has one of the highest numbers of missing persons in the world…
Putin says Ukraine mobilisation should be finished in two weeks
Astana, KazakhstanReuters Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, promising an end to a divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and huge numbers flee the country. Putin also said Russia had no plans “for now” for more […]
Ukraine says hundreds of bodies found in recaptured territory evidence of war crimes
Kyiv/Izium Ukraine Reuters Ukrainian officials said on Friday they had found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, buried in territory recaptured from Russian forces, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called proof of war crimes by the invaders. Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview many corpses were also interred in other […]
UN rights office says evidence growing of Mariupol mass graves
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The head of the UN human rights team in Ukraine said on Friday that monitors had received more information about mass graves in the besieged port city of Mariupol, including one that appeared to hold 200 bodies. “We have got increasing information on mass graves that are there,” Matilda Bogner told journalists by […]
Paths through bones: mass graves from Stalin’s purges found near Moscow
Moscow, RussiaReuters Mass grave pits have been found near Moscow containing the remains of thousands of people executed by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s secret police during his “Great Terror” campaign of purges. The graves were found over the course of three years at the Kommunarka shooting ground, a large wooded area southwest of Moscow that […]
New mass grave unearthed in Iraq’s north from brutal IS rule
Mosul, IraqAP A human skull, a pair of worn trousers and a shoe were among the remains unearthed from a mass grave discovered this week in northern Iraq, a remnant of the brutal rule of the Islamic State group, Iraqi officials said Thursday. The new mass grave was discovered on Monday in the village of […]