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The discovery of two mass graves by the end of last week in the Lebanese town of Anjar a close distance from the previous general headquarters of the Syrian intelligence contributed to the reopening of the file of detainees and those who went missing during the Lebanese civil war which lasted between 1975- 1990. The committee of the families of the missing and kidnapped in Lebanon called on the Lebanese authorities to open all mass graves which have recognized sites. The spokeswoman for the committee Widad Helwani said that the committee directed the Lebanese authorities in 2000 several to mass...

BEIRUT: Troops exhumed the remains of 25 bodies from a mass grave near a former Syrian military base in eastern Lebanon yesterday, while an official said 12 more buried bodies - most believed to be Lebanese soldiers - were removed from a grave near Beirut recently for DNA testing. The identities of the bodies were not immediately known, but one security official said some appeared to be Lebanese soldiers killed during an October 1990 Syrian military offensive that defeated Christian-commanded Lebanese Army units of then interim Lebanese prime minister Michael Aoun. Residents of the eastern Bekaa Valley town of Anjar,...

ANJAR, Lebanon, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Lebanese forces excavated a suspected third mass grave on Sunday, a day after unearthing 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades. Security forces were digging for more bodies at the third site near two other mass graves close to an old onion farm in the eastern town of Anjar, long used by Syrian intelligence as a notorious interrogation centre. Security sources said the 25 bodies found so far -- most now only skeletons in scraps of underwear -- had lain in the shallow graves...