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These are not missing persons like the Albanians whom Serbian police executed and buried in secret
graves
during the Kosovo conflict of 1999.
The BBC located
graves
of some of the missing in Albania.
Compare that to the volume of coverage and condemnation associated with, say, the discovery of Saddam Hussein’s mass graves, which were filled with hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
These include threats to, or actual attacks on, synagogues and other Jewish institutions, and the desecration of
graves
in St. Louis, Missouri, and other cities.“Even in the US, the country with the strongest Jewish community in the diaspora,” Lauder laments, “anti-Semitism is alive and kicking.”
Many people killed by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War lie unremembered in mass
graves.
They are digging the
graves
of Russia’s prosperity and democracy.
They were picked up from the mass
graves
that appeared around Srebrenica.
They have endorsed the propaganda portraying today’s trade deals as “free trade agreements,” even though Adam Smith and David Ricardo would turn over in their
graves
if they read the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
But while the war took the flower of Europe’s youth to premature graves, snuffing out the lives of a generation of talented poets, artists, cricketers, and others whose genius bled into the trenches, it also involved soldiers from faraway lands that had little to do with Europe’s bitter traditional hatreds.
When he visited the Russian cemetery near Paris – where many central figures of the “White movement” and Russian emigrants are buried – Putin placed wreaths on the
graves
of Ivan Bunin, a Russian poet, and Vika Obolenskaya, a hero of the French resistance.
It was a crime, she said, without trace (no written orders; no official directive, ever, anywhere); without
graves
(her father, brother, and mother became smoke and ash, with no marker but her own memory and, later, her autobiography); without ruins (Auschwitz, when she returns to it years later, is becalmed, neutralized, cleansed); without exit (Sarajevans, Rwandans, and Cambodians could, at least in theory, flee, whereas the hallmark of the Holocaust is that the world itself was a trap); and, finally, without reason (given the choice of expediting a troop train headed for the front or a train carrying Jews to the ovens, the Nazis always chose the latter).
Images of dead, injured, and distraught young children filled the media on an almost daily basis: a small boy sitting stunned and bleeding after his home was bombed; small bodies being lifted out of rubble; and small
graves
on the Mediterranean shoreline that mark the deaths of unknown children.
Meanwhile, all over Guatemala, thousands of communities are seeking to exhume the
graves
of the massacred.
Marx and Mao are probably spinning in their
graves.
But a few years later, many of these movements were banned, and their leaders and members were in jail, in exile, or in
graves.
Wounded demonstrators are reported to have been buried alive in mass graves, and there are confirmed reports of bodies washing ashore in the waterways near Yangon (Rangoon).
Now, however, the authorities claim that the issue must be re-examined, even calling for the mass
graves
to be exhumed.
But in recent years, the pathogen’s genetic traces have been found in sixth-century graves, and the DNA evidence convicts Yersinia pestis of this ancient mass murder as definitively as it would in a modern courtroom.
Meanwhile, many worries and concerns remain: Will the internally displaced be able to return home and – despite the countless hastily dug
graves
that scar their beautiful landscape – reconnect with their old lives?
Sabadet Totodet took the judge to a clearing on the outskirts of town where he was forced to dig
graves
for more than 500 fellow prisoners who died in custody.
Unlike Germany, Russia has never recognized its responsibility for the war and the mass
graves
of the innocent.
Mass
graves
are unearthed, torture chambers opened.
The most effective authoritarian regimes, then, are gradually digging their own
graves.
Satellite images show mass
graves
being dug in Iran.
Some cemeteries in London have run out of
graves.
The world is making the transition to clean energy, and those countries that are betting on the technologies of the past are digging their own economic
graves.
We dig the graves, then entrust the polyps with sealing away our dead for eternity!"
The little cemetery that surrounds it, closed in by a wall breast high, is so full of
graves
that the old stones, level with the ground, form a continuous pavement, on which the grass of itself has marked out regular green squares.
Others, astride the wall, swung their legs, kicking with their clogs the large nettles growing between the little enclosure and the newest
graves.
At Pere-Lachaise, when people strew flowers on their graves, as you so charmingly say in Paris, we are told that they combined all the virtues of the knights of old, and we hear of the great deeds of their ancestor who lived in the days of Henri IV: If, despite the good offices of Principe d'Araceli, I am not hanged, and if I ever come to enjoy my fortune in Paris, I hope to invite you to dine with nine or ten murderers who are honoured and feel no remorse.
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