Slovenia today
Slovenia today is a modern democratic country in the European Union. But it has a not-so-distant dark past. Tens of thousands of men, women and children were murdered by communists both during and after World War II.
Slovenia’s mass graves
After World War II was over in 1945, communist Partisans systematically murdered tens of thousands of non-communists and threw them into mass graves, caverns, and into this mine.
Communists forced 3000 men, women and children into the Huda Jama Barbara Rov mine, still alive. Then they covered it up with eleven layers of concrete and swore everyone to secrecy.
In 2009, miners removed the last concrete barrier and exposed the bodies and Slovenia’s crime to the world. Huda Jama
Kocevski Rog mass graves
Some of the most recent mass graves sites discovered are in the Kocevski Rog region of Slovenia. In the cave below Macesnova Gorica, right, work continues on the excavation of the victims of post-war killings. Direct preparatory work began a few years ago with the preparation and protection of the terrain and the installation of protective nets, the arrangement of the plateau, and the erection of scaffolding and excavation.
In Slovenia there are over 6,000 mass graves with unknown numbers of victims murdered by revolutionary/communist violence.
According to historian Dr. Mitja Ferenc, between 27 and 31 May 1945, the British army repatriated a huge number of anti-communists, most of them the Slovenian Home Guards, and handed them over to the Yugoslav communists. From the camp in Šentvid above Ljubljana, Slovenians, Croats, Serbs and others were then taken by train in cattle cars to Kočevje, and from there by truck to Kočevski rog, where they were murdered and thrown into the abyss. In addition to the cave under Macesnova Gorica, the most famous is the burial site Jama pod Krenom.
Slovenia’s death camps, concentration camps, and forced labor camps for political prisoners
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