Concealed Mass Graves of Croats in Slovenia: 30 Years after the Democratic Changes. Problems and Research Results
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https://doi.org/10.22586/csp.v54i3.23843Keywords:
post-war executions; concealed mass graves; Croatian victims; Government Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia; sounding; exhumation; Independent State of CroatiaAbstract
Using archival materials from the criminal police and district prosecutor’s offices of the Republic of Slovenia, the Government Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia, exhumation reports and field research, and published scientific works, the author of this paper presents an analysis of the investigation of concealed mass graves from the democratic changes in 1990 to 2022, with particular emphasis on mass graves containing Croatian victims. The concealed mass graves and their victims were erased from public memory until 1990. Planned field research of the mass graves began only in 2006, and ceased in 2009, after the victims in the Huda Jama mine were found. The new Law on concealed mass graves and victim burials of 2015 allows the continuous investigation, exhumation, and development of mass grave sites containing Croatian victims.
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