Mass graves in Slovenia

Memorial at the Kren Cave Mass Grave.

Mass graves in Slovenia were created in Slovenia as the result of extrajudicial killings during and after the Second World War. These clandestine mass graves are also known as "concealed mass graves" (Slovene: prikrita grobišča) or "silenced mass graves" (zamolčana grobišča) because their existence was concealed under the communist regime from 1945 to 1990.[1]: 6 

Some of the sites, such as the mass graves in Maribor, include some of the largest mass graves in Europe.[2][3][4] Nearly 600 such sites have been registered by the Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia, containing the remains of up to 100,000 victims.[5][6][7] They have been compared by the Slovenian historian Jože Dežman to the Killing Fields in Cambodia.[2]

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  4. ^ Ferenc, Mitja. 2012. "Independent Slovenia and Concealed Mass Graves." In Janez Juhant & Bojan Žalec (eds.), Reconciliation: The Way of Healing and Growth, pp. 233–240. Zurich: Lit Verlag, p. 236.
  5. ^ ""Photo Gallery: Under Slovenia lie mass graves." 2010. Jerusalem Post. (16 November)". Jpost.com. Associated Press. 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
  6. ^ "U 581 grobnici je 100.000 žrtava." 2009. Jutarnji list. (1 October). Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
  7. ^ ""Slovenia Unearthing WW2 Past." 'Ljubljana Life.". Local-life.com. Retrieved 2014-06-18.