Historian Urges Protecting Huda Jama Site

Ljubljana, 5 March - Five years after a mass grave of victims of Communist reprisals following WWII was discovered in an abandoned mine near Laško, a historian has urged exhuming the bodies that are still in the pit before it is too late.

Ljubljana Andreja Valič Zver (pictured right), head of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, addresses a conference marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Andreja Valič Zver (pictured right), head of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, addresses a conference marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana Andreja Valič Zver (pictured), head of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, attends conference marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Andreja Valič Zver (pictured), head of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, attends conference marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana A conference organised by the Study Centre for National Reconciliation marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
A conference organised by the Study Centre for National Reconciliation marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana Historian Mitja Ferenc (pictured) addresses a conference organised by the Study Centre for National Reconciliation marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Historian Mitja Ferenc (pictured) addresses a conference organised by the Study Centre for National Reconciliation marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana Historian Mitja Ferenc (pictured) addresses a conference organised by the Study Centre for National Reconciliation marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Historian Mitja Ferenc (pictured) addresses a conference organised by the Study Centre for National Reconciliation marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana Andreja Valič Zver (pictured right), head of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, addresses a conference marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Andreja Valič Zver (pictured right), head of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, addresses a conference marking five years since the opening of the St. Barbara mine shaft, where over 2,000 victims of post-WWII summary executions were found.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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