Mongolian Mass Grave uncovered

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Published on June 12, 2023 9:51:44 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcLKnHLEkWs

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Discovered at a construction site in Mongolia’s capital city, the grave contained at least 575 people. The vast majority of the victims, later identified as lamas, each had been killed by a single bullet to the head and were executed at some point between 1937 and 1939.

Because the lamas of Mongolia were the overwhelmingly dominant cultural, spiritual and economic force in the country they were viewed by the revolutionaries as being parasites preventing the modernization of Mongolia. Those lamas who were not executed or imprisoned were conscripted into the military and close to 750 temples were destroyed.

Historians, reviewing the at times meticulous records of the perpetrators, believe at least 30,000 people were executed by the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in the 1930s and while the majority were buddhist monks many intellectuals, dissidents, and nobility were killed in purges as well. Including the last Queen consort of Mongolia…whose outfit you might recognize…

If the number of dead is accurate then somewhere between 2 and 5% of Mongolia’s population at the time were put to death. Thousands more likely died in the gulags that were established at the same time.