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The Barbara Pit ((スロベニア語:Barbara rov)) is a pit near Huda Jama in Slovenia, known as the site of a World War II-era mass grave. The mass grave site was first publicly discussed in 1990, after the fall of communism in Yugoslavia. In the 1990s a memorial chapel was raised at the pit site, although the exact location of any graves was then unknown. Investigation of the Barbara Pit site began in August 2008.〔 On 3 March 2009 investigators removed concrete walls built after the war to seal the cave. Behind the walls were found between 200 and 400 unidentified bodies.〔 The victims, some of whom appear to be women, were stripped naked before being killed, so identification is difficult. By 7 November 2009 there were 726 bodies removed from the site. ==Investigation== According to eyewitness accounts, the victims were mostly Axis soldiers, probably Croatian Domobrani regulars and members of the Slovene Home Guard militia, killed by the Yugoslav People's Army between May and September 1945. Some of the victims may have been civilians. Andreja Valić, head of the Slovenian Research Centre for National Reconciliation, said that "current information, based on oral testimony, indicate that the slain people could have been Slovenian or Croatian citizens". It was reported that residents in the local area had indicated the victims may have been "pro-Nazi collaborators from Slovenia or Croatia".〔 The remains are to be removed to the nearby city of Maribor for further analysis. Slovenian investigators believe that the soldiers were brought from the nearby Teharje concentration camp to the site by Partisans where they were killed. According to Marko Štrovs, head of the Slovenian government's military graves department, the victims appear to have been killed by gas. Officials believe further investigation may reveal many more human remains (at least 1,000 more corpses). Croatian medical doctors offered their assistance in DNA analysis of the remains, which could potentially be used to identify Croat victims. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Pit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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