Bosses, torsos of the prisoners of war executed in the 1940s unearthed in City Park in Greece

Another series of unmarked graves, this containing 14 people from the Civil War of Greece, has been unearthed in a park in a suburb near the Greek city of northern Thessaloniki, local officials said on Saturday.

As in the previous one unmarked burial wells group Excavated earlier this year in Neapolis-Sykies, the bodies belong to the prisoners who were retained in a nearby Byzantine fortress. The prisoners, alleged communists and supporters, were executed between 1946 and 1953, according to historians.

Yedi Kule’s castle, also known by his Greek name EvenPyrgio (“Seven Towers”) was a prison where communist supporters were tortured and executed during the Civil War of Greece of 1946-49 and immediately later.

The new burial wells were discovered at the site of a municipal park in renewal, including the installation of new banks. The tombs were not well below the surface, said Haris Charismiadis, the supervisory engineer of the park project, News.

The renewal project is not a priority for local mayor Simos Daniilidis. “We insist on continuing excavation for tombs,” he said. Charismiadis, who said that most of the current bodies lot were found during the past week, is sure that there are more buried people nearby, including, probably under the asphalt of the streets adjacent to the park. An archaeologist is helping excavation.

In contrast to the 33 bodies found Earlier this year, who lay next to each other, the recently found bodies are confused, as if they are randomly thrown in and hurriedly, in a lot. The torsos and heads are separated.

Previously, Carismiadis said The teams had discovered execution victims with “many bullets in the heads, the skulls.” The items that meet with the bodies (a woman’s shoe, a bag, a ring) offer glimpse in the cut lives.

When Yedi Kule’s prisoners were executed, their families were often not notified and could not recover their bodies. Some discovered the fate of their loved ones from the newspapers: a family met the news while they were on the bus they had taken to prison to bring to their relative a new change of clothes.

The relatives of those executed have called for DNA tests to determine the identity of the bodies found. The tests have not yet begun.

Tens of thousands died in the first battles of the cold war era between the governmental forces backed by the West and the insurgent of the left, a brutal conflict with murder squads, children’s kidnappings and massive displacements. News themezone journalist George Polkthat he had represented the Greek right as corrupt, it was Among those killed During the war.

In a statement earlier this year, the city said the efforts to find other massive tombs would continue “so that all the skeletons of the people who lost their lives in this way during the dark years of the civil war and were not given the honors traditionally attributed to the dead.”

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