• Mass graves excavated at former military outpost in Guatemala

    Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters

    An anthropologist looks at a shoe as she works in a mass grave in the former Regional Command headquarters of the Guatemalan Army in Coban,Guatemala on Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

    Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters

    An anthropologist works in a mass grave on Tuesday.

    Reuters reports: The Public Ministry on February 27 began an exhumation at the former headquarters in Coban, which was called Military Zone 21 during the years of the internal armed conflict from 1960-1996. A total of 30 skeletons, with their hands tied behind their backs, have been found, according to anthropologists. An estimated 250,000 people died and 45,000 people were victims of forced disappearance during the conflict, according the local media.

     

     

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  • Funeral for Bosnian war victims found in mass grave

    Amel Emric / AP

    A Bosnian Muslim woman reacts, near the coffin of her relative during a mass funeral for Bosnian Muslims in Bratunac,140 kms northeast from Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Thursday, May 12.

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    Bosnian Muslims pray during a mass funeral in the town of Bratunac on Thursday. The remains of 16 Bosnian Muslims, killed by Serb forces during the country's 1992-95 war, were exhumed from the Redzici, Hrncici, Podcaus and Kamenica mass graves near Bratunac and buried on Thursday.

    According to the AP:

    Thousands of Bosnian Muslims attended at funeral on Thursday for 16 men, women and children killed by Bosnian Serb forces at the beginning of the Bosnian 1992-95 war in Bosnian town of Bratunac. All of the bodies were found and exhumed from a mass grave and identified by DNA method.

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    A police officer stands guard outside the La Piedad embalming building, after another 50 bodies found in a mass grave in northern Mexico arrived in Mexico City on April 19. The toll of murder victims buried in a series of mass graves in northern Mexico rose to around 150 last Friday, said the state government of Tamaulipas, where the attack occurred. Mexico's attorney general blamed the atrocity on the brutal Zetas drug cartel.

    Bodies recovered from mass grave brought to Mexico City

    Read more about the appalling discovery in Tamaulipas and view more images on the background to Mexico's drug war in our slideshow.