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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe discovery marks Greece\u2019s first exhumation of a Civil War mass grave, reviving a painful chapter often left unaddressed to avoid reigniting political tensions. Descendants have visited the site, requesting DNA testing to identify relatives among the remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The conflict, which followed World War II, was a key moment in Cold War history, prompting U.S. anti-communist intervention under the Truman Doctrine. Despite the executions being publicly announced at the time, graves remained secret and unmarked, with little official acknowledgment after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Local officials plan to expand excavations and conduct DNA testing to identify victims and return remains to families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During bench installation at a park in Thessaloniki, Greece, workers uncovered 33 skeletons in unmarked burial pits near the Yedi Kule fortress, a site known as a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during the 1946\u201349 Greek Civil War, Arab News reported. Many skulls showed bullet wounds, and personal items like a woman\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6101],"tags":[9006,13991],"class_list":["post-123486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","tag-discovery-of-mass-grave","tag-war-atrcocities"],"yoast_head":"\n