The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia (Slovene: Komisija za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč) is an office of the Slovenian government whose task is to find and document mass grave sites from the Second World War and the period immediately after it. It was established on November 10, 2005. The Commission handed its report to the Slovenian government in October 2009.
The Jutarnji newspaper reported the Commissions find, in all it is estimated that there are 100,000 victims in 581 mass graves. The commission's findings were used for the Reports and Proceedings of the 8th of April European public hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes organised by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission.
According to the “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" the killings were executed by the Yugoslav Partisan Army in 1945 and 1946.
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