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    Oct 5th, 2009 - BBC NEWS

    Sumatra relief effort increased Padang residents are trying to restore some normalcy to life Nearly a week after a deadly quake and landslides hit West Sumatra, efforts are being stepped up to get relief supplies to more remote communities.

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    Oct 4th, 2009 - XinHua

    JAKARTA, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's West Sumatra provincial government will turn three villages in the valley of Gunung Tigo to be mass graves following a landslide triggered by a 7.

  • 4 charged with digging up more than 100 Ill. graves

    Jul 9th, 2009 - USA Today

    ALSIP, Ill. (AP) — Three men and a woman are facing felony charges after police found what they called "startling and revolting" conditions at a historic cemetery in the south Chicago suburb of Alsip.

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    May 11th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

    Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Volunteers dug mass graves Monday in the marshes of Sri Lanka's northern war zone as they buried hundreds of civilians killed in artillery attacks that the United Nations characterized as a "blood bath.

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    May 5th, 2009 - The Independent

    Why are we asking this now? Work began yesterday to recover, and identify where possible, the remains of up to 400 British and Australian soldiers found last year in eight mass graves near Fromelles in northern France.

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A mass grave is a grave containing multiple, usually unidentified human corpses. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave.

Mass or communal burial was a common practice before the development of a dependable crematory chamber by an Italian named Brunetti in 1873.

In Paris, the practice of mass burial, and in particular, the condition of the infamous cemetery Des Innocents, led Louis XVI to eliminate Parisian cemeteries. The remains were removed and placed in the Paris underground forming the early Catacombs. Les Innocents alone had 6,000,000 dead to remove. Burial commenced outside of the city limits in what is now Père Lachaise cemetery.

Mass graves are usually created after a large number of people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly. In disasters, mass graves are used for infection and disease control.

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