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Liberia lays war victims to rest

The bones and skulls of hundreds of people killed in one of Liberia's worst war-time massacres have been buried.

Victims were residents of Kolokpai village, in central Liberia, as well as displaced people who had sought refuge there in September 1994.

The killings were blamed on rival rebel groups that overran the nearby main provincial town of Gbarnga.

The burial, in a mass grave, was organised by a women's group following the discovery of the remains.

Read entire article at BBC