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Mass graves discovered dating from Stalinist era near St Petersburg

(25 Sep 2002) VOICED BY RICHARD VAUGHN Toksovo, Russia - 23/09/02 0000 Pan down from trees to dug up graves 0011 Volunteers walking through forest 0022 Volunteer with skull from ground 0035 UPSOUND (Russian) Mikhail Samon volunteer: St. Petersburg, Russia - 23/09/02 0046 Various Memorial volunteer looking through maps File pictures from the 1930's 0103 Various of Stalin 0125 Various people walking into Gulag camp Toksovo, Russia - 23/09/02 0135 Various Memorial volunteers digging 0150 VISION ENDS STORYLINE: Volunteers from one of Russia's most respected human rights groups say they have found evidence of a mass grave site near St.Petersburg. They claim they may contain the remains of some 30 - thousand people killed in purges during the reign of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in late 1930s. 0002 Volunteers working with the human rights group 'Memorial' searched for five years before finding the site of these graves at Toksovo, about 20 miles northwest of St. Petersburg. 0012 Human rights activists believe this was a vast burial ground for victims of Stalin's secret police firing squads. 0019 About 100 volunteers who began digging in August have recovered 20 sets of remains so far from the forest in Toksovo. 0027 They've sent nine sets of remains to a forensic laboratory to try and establish age, sex, cause and time of death. 0035 UPSOUND 0036 Most of the skulls we find are shattered into many different pieces, says this volunteer. When the bullet exits the skull it usually destroys it. 0046 Memorial has come across other, indirect evidence _ including official documents and aerial photos that indicates that approximately 30 - thousand missing victims were buried at the testing ground. 0057 They couldn't have been killed by the Nazis, because German forces did not reach this area in World War II. 0103 But, tens of thousands were rounded up in and around St. Petersburg, during the height of Stalin's 'Great Terror 'for alleged crimes against the state. 0112 According to official Soviet-era data almost 39 and a half thousand people from the region were executed between 1937 and 1938. 0120 The KGB and its main post-Soviet successor, the Federal Security Service, kept silent about where the victims were buried, so in the mid-1990s Memorial began publishing appeals for information in newspapers. 0133 If the Federal Security Service breaks its silence and confirms that the Toksovo pits are part of the Stalin-era mass grave, the human rights group say it will cease digging and declare the area a monument to the victims. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...