Indonesia: cemetery dug up in search for bones of British and Dutch sailors

Indonesian foreign ministry and Dutch embassy looking for bones believed to have come from wrecks of second world war ships

Officials have started to excavate a cemetery in Indonesia in an attempt to identify an alleged mass war grave filled with the possible bones of Dutch and British soldiers.

A team from the Indonesian foreign ministry this week started to dig up part of the cemetery in Brondong, East Java, looking for bones that may have come from the wrecks of several Dutch and British warships that sank off the coast in the 1942 Battle of the Java Sea.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2sY45fZ