The commemorative service at that pit near the town of Lasko was led by a Slovenian and a Croatian bishop as well as by an Austrian priest and in attendance were families of victims and several Slovenian Opposition parliamentarians.
The commemoration was organised by an association that is trying to discover mass graves of victims killed in Slovenia in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Huda Jama, a disused mine, is believed to be one of the largest multiple graves of victims killed by Communist authorities and intelligence services whose acronyms were OZNA and KNOJ.
Some of the victims were excavated seven years ago, however the above-mentioned association holds that the disused mine is actually a mass grave for over 3,000 victims, mainly Slovenians, Croats and Serbs and that there were women and children among those victims executed in extrajudicial killings towards the end of WW2.
The victims, recovered from the first gallery of the mine seven years ago, were probably Slovenian Home Guard members and civilians who were taken there for mass executions in several turns from the Teharje camp.
There is evidence that some of the victims were buried alive to die in agony.