Excavations that start on the Mass Grave site from the site of children and children at the previous home of unmarried mothers in Ireland

Excavations begin on Monday from a group burial that is unique in the home of a mother and a former child in Western Ireland, suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of children and young children.

The planned investigation comes for two years by Irish and foreign experts in TUAM more than a decade after the discovery of an amateur for the first time Evidence of a collective grave there.

The excavations followed the subsequent test 2016-2017 large quantities of the child in the abandoned sewage tank on the site, which is now within a residential complex.

Scientists say the remains are largely mixed together, BBC reportsAnd a number of ways will be used to try to put remains together, and wherever it is possible, determined.

Catholic nuns ran the so -called “Mother and Child” Foundation There between 1925 and 1961, women who have become pregnant out of marriage and avoided their families.

After birth, some children lived in homes as well, but many of them were abandoned for adoption under a system that often witnessed the Church and the state side by side.

The history of unmarried mothers forced to work is hard The well -documented dark chapter in Irish history. The repressive institutions and women, which operate at the level of the country, do not close until recently in 1998 – represent a dark chapter in the history of Ireland Catholic and socially conservative.

A six -year investigation of Tuam’s preliminary discoveries found 56,000 unmarried women and 57,000 children passed through 18 homes over 76 years.

It also concluded that 9,000 children died in the various houses run by the Church and Catholicism throughout the country.

Records that were discovered up to 796 children and young people who died in Tuam’s house were discovered over the decades in which they worked.

It left its reasons without affecting it largely after the institution was demolished in 1972 and the housing was built there.

“They were deprived of dignity and respect.”

“These children were deprived of every human right to their lives, as well as their mothers,” Anna Kurgan, whose brothers may have been buried on Tuam, told reporters earlier this month.

“They were deprived of dignity and respect for death.”

Kurgan told the BBC that the start of the excavation was “welcome and difficult.”

She said: “Although it is comfortable to see the work started on the site, it is really just a stage that is still a long way for all of us.” “I will not be comfortable until I see justice for two brothers who not only need a suitable Christian burial, but also the full priests of the applied law.”

Annette McCai, whose mother Maggie was sent to Tam in Tam when she was seventeen years old, told the BBC radio program that she believes that her older sister’s remains Mary Margaret could be in the collective grave.

“The tomb of my mother still does not be named on the witness of the grave,” she told BBC Radio. “It contains my brother and has my mother’s husband, and I was the one who said,” Let’s wait for Mary Margaret. “

The Office of the Certified Intervention Director (ODAIT) in Ireland will implement the excavation, along with experts from Colombia, Spain, Britain, Canada and the United States.

Its director Daniel Maxoini told a press conference recently in TUAM that this would include the extraction of bodies, analysis and identification if possible and re -threatening the remains found.

In 2014, local historian Catherine Corles follows evidence that the 796-newborns to a nine-year-old-home-old-home-old child.

The death certificates issued by the country that collected show that various diseases, from tuberculosis and cramps to measles and whooping cough, have been included as a cause of death.

Corless Research has indicated that the bodies have been probably placed in the abandoned sewage tank that was discovered in 1975, while they led to the inquiries supported by the country that revealed the full house scandal.

The ODAIT team was finally appointed in 2023 to lead the TUAM excavation.

DNA samples have already been collected from about 30 relatives, and this process will be expanded in the coming months to collect the largest possible genetic evidence, according to McSwini.

The storage is installed at an altitude of 8 feet around the vicinity of the drilling area, which is also under 24 hours security monitoring to ensure its criminal safety.

“It was a fierce battle. When this started, no one wanted to listen. In the end, we make mistakes,” Corles, 71, told AFP in May.

She said: “I was only pleading:” I took the children out of this sewage system and gave them the appropriate Christian burial that was denied. “