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Mass graves in Slovenia were created in Slovenia as the result of extrajudicial killings during and after the Second World War. They are known as "concealed mass graves" ((スロベニア語:prikrita grobišča)) or "silenced mass graves" () because their existence was concealed under the communist regime from 1945 to 1990.〔Ferenc, Mitja, & Ksenija Kovačec-Naglič. 2005. ''Prikrito in očem zakrito: prikrita grobišča 60 let po koncu druge svetovne vojne''. Ljubljana: Muzej novejše zgodovine.〕 Some of the sites, such as the mass graves in Maribor, include some of the largest mass graves in Europe.〔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.〕 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.〔("U 581 grobnici je 100.000 žrtava." 2009. ''Jutarnji list''. (1 October). ) 〕 They have been compared by the Slovenian historian Jože Dežman to the Killing Fields in Cambodia.〔 ==Background== Many of the mass graves were created during the war, but the larger sites date from after the war. The wartime graves vary from those of soldiers killed in battle to groups that were targeted by the Partisans because of their ethnicity (e.g., Romani)〔("Genocid nad Cigani na Blokah in v Iški." 2010. ''Zaveza'' 43 (25 February). ) 〕〔(Diricchardi-Muzga, Rinaldo. 2011. ''Kraintike Sinti estraiharia''. Ljubljana: Zveza romskih skupnosti Umbrella-Dežnik and Anglunipe-RIC, p. 94. ) 〕〔(Sajovic, Bogdan. 2013. "Preberite v novi Demokraciji: Komunistični genocid nad Cigani." ''Demokracija'' (7 September). ) 〕〔Dežman, Jože. 2008. "Poročilo Komisije Vlade RS za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč v mandatu 2005 – 2008." Press conference (14 October).〕 or other civilians that were murdered for political reasons.〔(Vodice 1 Mass Grave on Geopedia ) 〕〔(Cirje 1 Mass Grave on Geopedia ) 〕 The postwar graves contain the remains of suspected collaborators, soldiers, and civilians that fled towards Austria in May and June 1945,〔 as well as groups that were targeted because of their ethnicity (e.g., Gottschee Germans and Hungarians)〔''Leidensweg der Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien,'' vol. 2: ''Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den Deutschen durch das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944–1948.'' 1994. Munich: Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, p. 913.〕〔Tschinkel, Wilhelm. 2004. ''Gottscheer Volkstum in Sitte, Brauch, Märchen, Sagen, Legenden und anderen volkstümlichen Überlieferungen.'' Ed. Alojzij Pavel Florjančič & Marija Stanonin. Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovensko narodopisje ZRC SAZU, p. 618.〕〔(Mikola, Milko. 2008. "Concentration and Labour Camps in Slovenia." In: Peter Jambrek (ed.), ''Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes,'' pp. 145–154. Ljubljana: Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, p. 147. )〕 and civilians that were the victims of political purges〔(Florjančič, Alojzij Pavel. 2001. "Povojna grobišča v Crngrobu." ''Loški razgledi'' 48: 217–244, p. 232. ) 〕 or marked as "class enemies" in order to eliminate potential opponents to the new regime.〔〔〔〔(Lotmerški "Momento more": Prikrito vojno grobišče v Babjem Ložiču v Ljutomeru ) 〕 After the war, the communist authorities denied that the executions had taken place. Attempts to reveal the events were suppressed, evidence was destroyed, and no exhumations took place.〔〔〔("World War II mass grave found in Slovenia." 2010. ''BBC News.'' (7 September) ).〕 People were forbidden from visiting the graves, and many were hidden under waste. After the fall of communism and collapse of Yugoslavia, researchers in Slovenia started writing about the killings and exhumations were undertaken.〔 However, some left-wing parties, in particular the Social Democrats, have been accused of stalling such investigations.〔〔 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「Mass graves in Slovenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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