Unmarked and mass graves give rise to complex, challenging and controversial responses in any society. From Spain to Bosnia, Colombia to Rwanda, these sites, exhumed or not, bear the traces of traumatic pasts and presents and the memory work around these sites is essential to their preservation.

These pages aim to provide information and understanding about unmarked and mass graves in Lebanon through the presentation of five key sites as well as pedagogical activities designed to interrogate and engage with the memory work carried out around them.