Index  ›  world  ›  NPR
world · NPR ↗

Graves

NPR Reviewed Jul 3, 2026 ✓ Reviewed by citations.press editors
Citation-ready fact
War crimes investigators discovered extensive tampering of evidence at a suspected mass grave site in eastern Bosnia.
View source ↗
Citation-ready fact
NPR released a new set of national history standards today.
View source ↗
Citation-ready fact
The first national history standards were released two years ago and were criticized for offering too many negative examples about American history.
View source ↗
Citation-ready fact
The new national history standards omit the specific curriculum suggestions that many people objected to in the original draft.
View source ↗
Citation-ready fact
Three witnesses claim that Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic was present during mass executions at the site.
View source ↗
Citation-ready fact
The discovery calls into question U.S. officials' assurances that suspected mass gravesites would remain intact for investigators.
View source ↗

Noah talks with Mike O'Connor, who's in Tuzla reporting for the New York Times. War crimes investigators have discovered extensive tampering of evidence at a suspected mass grave site in eastern Bosnia. O'Connor says this site is particularly important because three witnesses claim that the Bosnian Serb military commander, General Ratko Mladic, was present while the mass executions took place. This discovery also calls into question the assurances by U.S. officials that suspected mass gravesites would remain intact for investigators. (4:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. HISTORY STANDARDS - NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the release today of a new set of national history standards. The first standards, released 2 years ago, were roundly criticized for offering too many negative examples about American history. The new standards are decidedly more positive about the American experience, but more importantly they omit the specific curriculum suggestions that many people objected to in the original draft.

This article was originally published by NPR ↗. citations.press indexes the source-backed facts above and links to the original. Something wrong? Corrections policy · Report an error