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They're killing so many people they can't even afford to bury them all in anything but these unmarked
graves
like this one outside of Ciudad Juarez.
So they returned to their villages and are told they're going to get sick and die soon, but five happy years, their logic goes, is better than 10 stuck in a high rise on the outskirts of Kiev, separated from the
graves
of their mothers and fathers and babies, the whisper of stork wings on a spring afternoon.
When I hear that story, I always imagine the folks from the Great Migration rolling over in their graves, because you can imagine that they didn't sacrifice moving from the South to the North to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American dream: steady work and a home that they owned.
These items have been recovered from numerous mass
graves
across my homeland, and as we speak, forensics are exhuming bodies from newly discovered mass graves, 20 years after the war.
These items are recovered from numerous mass graves, and the main goal of this collection of the items is a unique process of identifying those who disappeared in the killings, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Holocaust.
Once all the missing persons are identified, only decaying bodies in their
graves
and these everyday items will remain.
What we did is we conducted an exhumation in 2003, where we exhumed 220 bodies from 53
graves
in a military base.
Well, we have testimony that said that within this military base, there were bodies, there were
graves.
So we went in there with a search warrant and about two hours after we went in, we found the first of 84 graves, a total of 533 bodies.
Native American human remains were plundered from graves, even taken fresh from battlefields.
When archaeologists came across white graves, the skeleton was often quickly reburied, while Native bones were deposited as specimens on museum shelves.
Museum curators today did not pillage ancient
graves
or steal spiritual objects, but we can accept responsibility for correcting past mistakes.
In Arizona, I went out with a group of women who were made to wear t-shirts saying, "I was a drug addict," and go out on chain gangs and dig
graves
while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again.
These benefits may have shifted ancient people’s thinking toward
graves
designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common.
Sometimes, these
graves
contained practical or ritual objects, suggesting belief in an afterlife where the dead might need such tools.
Once a luxury reserved for the rich and powerful, individually marked
graves
became available to the middle and working classes.
They were like, well, maybe we can reuse those
graves
after 50 years.
Poems and legends of the time told of laborers buried in nearby mass graves, or even within the wall itself.
There are no headstones and no
graves
in the typical sense.
The
graves
are scattered about the property under elegant mounds, marked only by a rock or a small metal disk, or sometimes only locatable by GPS.
Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit
graves.
And soon British and German soldiers were doing that, and then helping each other carry bodies, and then helping each other dig
graves
in the frozen ground, and then praying together, and then having Christmas together and exchanging gifts, and by the next day, they were playing soccer together and exchanging addresses so they could meet after the war.
What happens if you find out that in your country or in the country next door, students are disappearing and hidden
graves
are appearing, or that millions of dollars are disappearing from the budget and that ex-presidents are magically now multimillionaires?
Found in graves, bogs, and sites of ancient settlements, many of these objects are inscribed with messages in Old Norse written in runic letters.
In a country of only seven million people, one and a half million were murdered by their own leaders, their bodies piled in the mass
graves
of the killing fields.
Picture yourself driving down a small road in Africa, and as you drive along, you look off to the side, and this is what you see: you see a field of
graves.
Or will they someday chuckle over our
graves?
The T-Rex's must be flipping in their graves, so to speak.
He would rob corpses from fresh
graves
of women who resembled his mother and he would have sex with them before 'dressing them like a deer' in his garage.
He did not have a helper to dig up the
graves
and anyone who owns land in the area knows that it is mostly sand with a little dirt in it.
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