Day of the Disappeared: remembering victims of the Bosnian war – in pictures
Families are still searching for 12,000 missing relatives from the 1990s war in the western Balkans. Photographer Armin Smailovic followed one man, the only survivor of a 1992 massacre in which he lost his mother, brothers and sister. http://bit.ly/2vHCOLM
Spain: Archaeologists exhume civil war dead from mass graves
Spanish archaeologists have unearthed bodies from mass graves dating back to the 1936-1939 civil war. The bodies were exhumed from a local cemetery in Valladolid in central Spain where victim campaign volunteers aimed to bring closure for relatives still searching for family members. Four mass graves have been excavated at the site, and 228 bodies have been recovered there since April 2016. There are thought to be more than 2,000 mass burial sites across Spain dating back to the civil war. Historians estimate that 500,000 civilians were killed during…