The bodies found in Greece said the mass grave was “bullets in the heads”

When the excavator closed the brown lands from the fragile white skull, the ancient Greek Thessaloniki’nın built benches in the park in the ancient Greek port.

They turned off motor equipment and started working with pickaxes and shovels. The staff found two skeletons, more. Until March 33 sets of bones Sleep in a tight cluster of burial holes in the shadow of an Byzantine fortress.

“We found many bullets in their heads, the skull,” Haris Charismiadis, said he stood four months on the ground.

Finding ancient remains or items in Greece are very common. However, the Kule Castle was a prison, which was tortured and implemented in the communist sympathizers during the 1946-49 Civil War of Greece. Tens of thousands of tens of thousands, government forces supported by the West and the left-wing forces, in the early creek in a brutal clash, which are the abduction and mass displacement. CBS News Journalist George PolkThe right-widing Greek government was those who described as corruption Among those killed during the war.

The Greeological Service has cleared the site for development because the archeological service is less than 100 years old. However, in Naples-Sykies, the authorities around the living city of Thessaloniki, pressed with excavations, Find a chance There is “great history and national importance.”

In recent weeks, leaving flowers to generations, leaving the officials, said, “We will be able to get the remains of his grandfather,” said Naples-Sykies’ Mayor Simos Daniilidis since 1994.

According to historians and the Greek Communist Party, 400 kule prisoners were executed in 400. Items found with bodies – a woman’s shoe, a bag, a ring – shines in the eyes shortly.

War inheritance

For the families of Slaine Pro-communist Greeks, the findings in the National Resistance Park continue to have a dormant inheritance to prevent old moments. The small site became the mass grave of the first Civil War of Greece.

After refusing to sign a 19-year-old Agapios Sachinis, a declaration to political beliefs.

“These are not simple issues,” the names son said during the last visit of the site.

“It only has values ​​and dignity that you will not be concessive but not only in bold – not to save your own life, 78.

A member of the Scholarship Communist City Council, Sachinis, was arrested for political activities in the dictatorship in the 1960s. Today, the Greek Communist Party is the political main goal, mainly the country’s role in the country’s WWII resistance.

If Sachinis’s residues are determined, it will burn them and protect the ashes in his house.

“I want Agapios that are close to me, at least if you are right,” he said.

Cold War PlayBook

The Greek Civil War began after World War II. After the continent was widely destroyed, he lost international attention quickly, but the conflict was a turning point.

Thessaloniki is glued on new drilled bones, then decades are a gamebook that continues to produce more signless graves in repression, society and Asian, Africa and Latin America. Then governments abused and atrocities of the Cold War Age faced a painful choice: open the past – to try and suppress investigative commissions in Eastern Europe and in many Latin American countries.

Greek emergency laws gradually removed and only completely canceled in 1989. Summary tests and notes of executions were never disclosed. No political force pushed the suspect’s funeral places.

Politicians still use a high-cautious language when applying for the past, and Thessaloniki discovery was met with a certain public reaction. The findings were not directly appealed by the country’s central government – a reminder that many Greeks are still facilitating through the country’s dreams.

For decades ago, about a million-hundred-hundreds of port city, a million port city from ancient Greek, Roman and Ottoman cycles, historically strong Balkan and Jewish influence. Today, retirees are often called and are called housing buildings full of medium-ranking families. During the construction, the residents whispered when founders were found, but no surveys were conducted.

“The flowers of their descendants”

The executions of the Army Shooting were extended in the 1950s, but the graves were not marked and hidden. The author and historian Spyros Souzinopoulos, Thessaloniki’s native, Yedi Kulee examined the executions, including the anger of the prisoners ended in the last hours.

After the death penalty in a military court, the main guard will be adjusted in a very large manner in order to badly regulate the wrong way. Many would use their last hours to write a letter to their families. In Dawn, the main guard and the other two people were back and handed back to the fire staff. Most loaded to trucks to prevent the public’s attention. Sometimes they caused them to death.

Most of the victims were barely adults – the youth called the “flowers of generations”.

Two 17-year-old schoolgirls, Effaxia Nikolai and Eva Kourouzidou were executed while wearing the uniform.

Couples said, “Me hit the basis.”

DNA testibi

City officials take a step to call the missing families to conduct DNA testing on the balances and present a genetic material. This way can determine the bodies and return to their relatives.

Septuagenar, who was executed, Agapios Sachinis, among those who wanted to provide DNA.

Mayor Daniilidis, in the coming weeks ordered the expansion of the accident to other parts of the park.

One statement“The city would continue to endeavors to find other mass graves,” all the skeletons of people who died in this way in the dark years of the civil war are not respected belonging to the dead. “