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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's Cara tsuboi joined by senior writer Daniel tournament hello and Daniel just returned from Palau in the South Pacific taking part of a very cool expedition right explain what we're seeing in the background here in the jungle so this is a part of this mission this group called the bet prop project every spring for years they've gone to Palau hunting for EM IAS who were shot down in during the Pacific battle with the Japanese in 1944 so here in the jungle they think there could be remained there could be remains here in the jungle because the Japanese they had 25,000 troops on Palau and towards the end of the Pacific War food and resources were getting very short and so they had Catholic priests Jesuit missionaries and others guest workers as well as American POWs and it seems like what happened is that they executed a lot of them and potentially it's thought that they put them in some mass graves up in the trouble because if you just stay in between the yellow markers that's what's been cleared yet so how are they going about finding these graves they've been going partly on the testimony from Japanese who were were captured after the war and spoke to the war crimes tribunals and they identified what they called l-shaped depressions where there may have been mass graves so did you discover anything in your treks to the jungle um they had identified six different sites that potentially be these mass graves and so they wanted to survey them and kind of mark them off so that this group called cleared ground demining which has been working in plow for five years removing unexploded ordnance could kind of have their way with it to make sure that they were safe the rigs fixed where we pick up any of the metallic fragmentation and also to run them over with like metal detectors and see whether there was any signatures of which they thought might be buttons or zippers or something from people that could have been buried