Over 6,000 bodies found in Burundi's mass graves

A Burundian worker from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission extracts the skull of an unidentified person from a mass grave in the Bukirasazi hill in Karusi Province, Burundi January 27, 2020. Picture taken January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana

(Reuters) - Burundi’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found more than 6,000 bodies in six mass graves in Karusi Province, the largest finding since the government launched a nationwide excavation in January.

The commission chairman Pierre Claver Ndayicariye told journalists on Friday that the remains of 6,032 victims as well as thousands of bullets were recovered. Clothes, glasses and rosaries were used to identify some of the victims.