Some look as if they are sleeping. Others, as if they are calling out in the midst of a bad dream. But more than one mottled, civilian face wears an unintentional valedictory snarl of terror. It is horrible.Fourteen corpses are now lying on waste ground, under a leaden sky. A heavy rain is falling. We are here to bear witness to the latest mass grave to be exhumed in the horror-stricken satellite town of .Behind the church of St Andrew the First Called – whitewashed, with a gilt dome and, inevitably, an exterior spattered with small arms fire – a gash has been carved out of the yellow earth. A flat bed loader of a type used by builders' merchants all over Europe is lifting corpses, one by one, from the trench.
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