Lost bones, a mass grave and war wrecks plundered off Indonesia

Indonesian scrap metal workers tell of finding and discarding body parts after second world war battleships were wrenched from sea bed

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

They knew about the bones: the arm and leg bones, the occasional skull, a few teeth still jutting out.

As the welders cut through the mangled steel of the old ships that had been brought their way, they came across the human remains mixed in with sea-rusted bullets, the odd pistol, rifles, helmets and jumbo-sized boots.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2oA2yqY

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