The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia ( sl, Komisija za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč) is an office of the

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

n government whose task is to find and document

mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...

sites from the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

and the period immediately after it. It was established on November 10, 2005. The commission handed its report to the Slovenian government in October 2009. The newspaper ''Jutarnji'' reported the commission's findings; in all, it is estimated that there are 100,000 victims in 581 mass graves. The commission's findings were used for the ''Reports and Proceedings'' of the 8th of April European public hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes organised by the

n Presidency of the Council of the

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(January–June 2008) and the European Commission. According to the “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes," the killings were carried out by the Yugoslav Partisan Army in 1945 and 1946.

Work

The commission has been consistently registering and gradually probing new grave sites. *2002: 40 sites *January 2007: 512 sites *August 2007: 550 sites *February 2008: 570 sites *October 2009: 581 sites *January 2011: 594 sites While the commission's own purpose is not to identify individual remains, research in

Škofja Loka Škofja Loka (; german: Bischoflack) is a town in Slovenia. It is the economic, cultural, educational, and administrative center of the Municipality of Škofja Loka in Upper Carniola. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. Geography Škofja Loka lies ...

has revealed that DNA matches can still be made to identify victims.

Exhumations

Barbara Pit The Barbara Pit massacre ( sl, Pokol v Barbara rovu, hr, Pokolj u Barbarinom rovu), also known as the Huda Jama massacre, was the mass killing of prisoners of war of Ante Pavelić's NDH Armed Forces and the Slovene Home Guard, as well as civi ...

, discovered in 2008. Remains of over 700 people were exhumed before work was stopped. *

Lancovo Lancovo () is a settlement on the right bank of the Sava River, opposite Radovljica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Ce ...

, discovered in 2007. * Lokavec, discovered in 2004. Twelve bodies were exhumed in 2008. * Mostec, discovered in 2010. *

Prevalje Prevalje (; German language, German: ''Prävali'') is a settlement in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Prevalje. It lies in the traditional Slovenian province of Carinthia, Slovenia, Carinthia. Prevalje lies in a valley wh ...

, discovered in 2010. Contains the remains of approximately 700 victims.

Members

Jože Dežman Jože Dežman (born 26 September 1955) is a Slovenian historian, museum curator, philosopher and editor. He served as the director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. Since March 2012, he has been the director of the Arch ...

(Chairman of the commission, Director of the National Museum of Contemporary History) * Miha Movrin * Metka Černelč * Majda Pučnik Rudl * Ludvik Puklavec * Davorin Mozetič * Marko Štrovs * Janez Črnej * Blaž Kujundžič (

Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) ( Slovene: ''Statistični urad Republike Slovenije'', ''SURS'') is an independent Slovenian state institution in charge of official statistical surveying. It reports directly to the prime mi ...

) * Andrej Vovko * Nataša Kokol Car * Pavel JamnikRemains Found in Konfin Mass Grave Already Identified
* Davorin Vuga * Milan Sagadin * Jožef Bernik

Former members

Mitja Ferenc Mitja Ferenc (21 March 1960) is a Slovenian historian, educator, and author. Ferenc was born in Ljubljana, the son of renowned historian and partisan Tone Ferenc. He graduated from modern history at the University of Ljubljana in 1985. Since 2 ...

* Anton Drobnič

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