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Investigation launched into mass grave

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    Guinea-Bissau's attorney general has ordered the exhumation of a mass grave in Bissau containing 14 unidentified bodies, news organisations reported.

    A spokesman for the attorney general's office told the Portuguese news agency, Lusa, that investigations were underway into suspected summary executions by officials of former president Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was deposed in May 1999 by sacked armed forces chief Brigadier General Ansumane Mane.

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