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The City of Tulsa resumed a test excavation for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Graves Investigation on July 13 at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

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Excavation Begins For Possible Mass Grave From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

2:15pm July 14, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Tulsa officials began a test excavation to determine if land on in city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery is the site of a mass grave of victims of the race massacre. Most of the victims have never been found.

Photograph of an African-American man with a camera looking at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in Oklahoma.

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New Research Identifies Possible Mass Graves From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

4:58pm December 17, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

"I'm as confident as I can be in the results that this is a very big candidate for something associated with the massacre," a senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey said on Monday.

In Mosul, reminders of the Islamic State's brutal rule include a school wall covered with drawings showing how militants executed their prisoners. The U.N. says the area around the city holds mass graves where thousands of people were buried.

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Islamic State Dumped At Least 6,000 Bodies In Mass Graves In Iraq, U.N. Says

11:57am November 06, 2018

by Bill Chappell

"Victims include women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities, members and former members of the Iraqi armed forces and police," says a new U.N. report that details 202 mass graves.

Clothes of genocide victims whose bodies were exhumed hang at the site of a recently-discovered mass grave near the capital Kigali, in Rwanda on Thursday, April 26, 2018.

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In Rwandan Mass Graves, There Are Few Ways To Identify The Dead. Clothing Is One

1:32pm May 03, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Near the capital of Rwanda, four new mass graves have been discovered with more than 2,000 bodies. Forensic anthropologist Melissa Connor says the process is particularly challenging in the country.

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France Mukantagazwa, who lost her father and other relatives in the Rwanda genocide and believes their bodies may be in the newly found graves, cries as she speaks to reporters at the site on Thursday.

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Mass Graves Discovered 24 Years After Rwandan Genocide

6:00pm April 26, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

Up to 3,000 bodies are thought to be buried in the graves, victims of a 100-day massacre that left 800,000 people dead. Survivors wonder why the sites are just being uncovered.