#massgraves
Rescue workers at a mass grave in a forest on the outskirts of Izium, eastern Ukraine, where hundred of graves were found in September 2022
Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian
Libya uncovers 50 migrant bodies in mass graves http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THt511 #Libya #MigrantCrisis #HumanRights #MassGraves #Refugees
Syria is counting the grim toll from the half-century of the Assad family dictatorship. The task of finding and identifying the dead will continue for years.
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/mass-graves-syria-lay-bare-depths-assads-repression
#MassGraves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones’ Disappearances Under #Assad Regime
DN! talks w/ HRW's Hiba Zayadin
Another churchly #ChildKiller retires behind smoke and mirrors: The Case of #JustinWelby.
Raping a child and protecting those who do is as Christian as crucifixion. So no doubt the world is emitting a big yawn today as Justin Welby resigns as #Archbishop of Canterbury after being caught covering for his sadistic child-torturing friend John Smyth.
After all, #Anglican and #Catholic clergy are required by their standing policy of #CrimenSollicitationas to do precisely what Welby did and protect #ChildRapists in their church.
In its typical facile, dissimulating manner, the media has treated Welby’s protection of the brutal child-rapist John Smyth as a one-time, episodic event. In fact, Archbishop Welby is himself a notorious repeat offender who has blood on his hands. The malfeasance of this former #oil company executive turned Anglican #cleric goes way back.
During the first accredited excavation of children’s #MassGraves at the murderous Anglican #Mohawk #ResidentialSchool in #Brantford, #Ontario during 2011, Archbishop Welby ordered all the school records and gravesites destroyed.
During the summer of 2014, Justin Welby was named as a co-conspirator in #ChildTrafficking and killing by a #Brussels based #CitizensTribunal and found guilty of #CrimesAgainstHumanity. Part of the evidence presented to the Tribunal concerned Welby’s participation in a #CatholicAnglican child sacrificial #cult known as the #NinthCircle that operated extensively in the #Canadian ‘Indian #ResidentialSchools and implicates British, Dutch, and Belgian ‘royalty’.
The complicity doesn’t end there. It involves the world’s second biggest #mining company and a close associate and funder of Donald #Trump: Rio Tinto, whose biggest investors include the British royal family. Justin Welby’s ties to #RioTinto Mining and to more murder cropped up in September of 2022, when Tinto and its Canadian subsidiary, #StarDiamondMining, dealt with some “troublesome Indians” on the James Smith #Cree reservation in eastern #Saskatchewan.
After refusing to allow Rio Tinto to begin diamond mining on their land, ten members of the James Smith tribe were #murdered in one night. The alleged killer was a drug addict and drifter who conveniently died in #RCMP custody the next day. Six of the ten murdered people were relatives of Rio Tinto’s biggest opponent among the James Smith Cree natives, Chief Wally Burns.
#CanadianCrimes #TrueCrime #ChurchCrimes #ChildAbusers #CanadianConnection #CoverUp
Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office | UN.org
#Gaza #MassGraves #Genocide https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876
a trilingual essay by hu shu-wen on the cruel fate of many political prisoners during taiwan's era of white terror
https://fedia.io/m/history/t/1192914 #taiwan #persecution #humanRights #massGraves
UN warns of impunity for Tarhuna violations, urges accountability
Children are also among those recently found in mass graves, according to UN experts, with many showing signs of torture and summary executions, as well as potential instances of people buried alive.
Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia again brought attention to the discovery of seven #massgraves of Palestinians in #Gaza.
“We are waiting for the results of an independent investigation, which in this regard was demanded by the UN Security Council in its press statement.”
#UNisCivilSociety
On Thursday, the Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia (JEP) informed that an intervention carried out in a collective ossuary to recover the bodies of victims of forced disappearance, in Samaná, Caldas, led to the recovery of 171,806 bone structures.
The unprecedented operation, as described by the JEP, was carried out over 17 days in the San Agustín Cemetery by a specialised forensic team.
The analysis showed that the more than 170,000 bone structures recovered (isolated parts of unidentified bodies) would represent 831 people (the number of structures that make up a complete body).
However, when analysing each structure, only 113 anatomical blocks could be identified, i.e. 113 complete bodies.
From these findings, the Forensic Technical Support Group team identified 42 structures showing signs of violent events associated with the armed conflict, which were sent to Medicina Legal for identification.
The remaining 42 with signs of aggression were left in the care of the cemetery administration and the Municipal Mayor’s Office, as they are not of forensic interest as they do not present traumas or signs of violent death.
According to the source, the recovery of the bodies of the victims of disappearance in the context of the conflict is just one more step in the identification chain, which is defined after the genetic cross-referencing of the information provided by relatives searching for their loved ones, and which includes medical, odontological and anthropological aspects.
The collective ossuaries constitute a complex scenario for the recovery of victims of forced disappearance in Colombia, as in many cases the bodies were deposited without an organised control and register, which makes it difficult to recognise the people found there, the entity’s communiqué added.
The discovery of mass graves and hidden bodies has increased through the years as the victims of fascist and far right violence becomes increasingly clear.
Why Hasn’t the #US Called for an Investigation into #MassGraves in #Gaza?
https://watchingamerica.com/WA/2024/04/30/why-hasnt-the-us-called-for-an-investigation-into-mass-graves-in-gaza/
#Israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
Why hasn’t the #US called for an investigation into #massgraves in #Gaza Nothing screams ‘covering up #warcrimes ’ like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent #investigation #Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-investigation-gaza-mass-graves?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"But all these claims have served a purpose. They keep western publics focused on evil humanitarian aid workers and evil anti-war protesters rather than the kind of evil that dares in broad daylight to kill 15,000 children, destroy hospitals, and hide bodies in mass graves.
Jonathan Cook on how an ‘antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza.
#Israel #Gaza #Antisemitism #MassGraves #UKPolitics #USPolitics
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-an-antisemitism-hoax-drowned
Beggars can't be choosers and in Germany we have to put up even with mind-bending fuckery from the self-congratulatory "fair and balanced” crowd (such as there is), because at least they're not actively pro-genocide and we have to take what we can get.
True story:
Palestinian civil society, journalists, and aid organisations: »We're at the hospital and the Israeli soldiers are executing people in the yard and burying others alive! ... They’ve left and we are now digging up the people we saw them execute and bury alive. Here are the bodies. PLEASE COME AND INVESTIGATE!«
Israeli military: »We've looked into this Khamaas accusation for half an hour and no-one we asked around the press office remembers having done this, so there. DON’T YOU DARE TRY TO INVESTIGATE or we'll ban you from entry for life or kill you or both.«
"Neutral" German: »Well, looks like we got a classic case of “she said, he said”... Too bad there's no way to tell who's lying. 🤷♂️«