More bodies found in Lebanese mass grave
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 12/7/2005

Replying to a question on information which attributed the mass graves recently found in Anjar, Bekaa, belong to the period of the civil war in Lebanon in 1990 when the forces of Michel Aawn and Samir Jaajaa clashed, the leader of the opposition trend Michael Aawn told al-Jazeera satellite TV that "this is an irresponsible statement," noting that Anjar was far away from the battle fields.

In the same context the Lebanese prime minister Foaud Siniora vowed to continue investigations in order to disclose the facts of the mass graves found in the site close to the former headquarters of the Syrian intelligence leadership in Lebanon. He said, he asked for the help of the ICRC (Red Cross) in this case.

Worthy mentioning that the search operations in the graves resulted on Saturday and Sunday in finding 30 bodies in two mass graves in Anjar village, adjoining the Syrian borders.

The Lebanese attorney general judge Saeed Mirza said that part of the remains which surfaced after the unearthing operations by bulldozers is for "women and children." For its part, the Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the Lebanese authorities to take immediate necessary measures in order to make sure of preserving all evidence in the site of the mass grave in order to find out who the remains belong to so as to bring sides responsible for these crimes to the judiciary.

Amnesty International criticized methods used to unearthed the mass graves and called for "making the investigations later in compliance with international standards, especially the UN norms.

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