mass grave

mass grave (plural mass graves)

1. A grave containing many corpses.
   • 2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 October 2016, Asia Pacific‎:

     Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr. Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation. The site, in the Chenghai district of Shantou, was an appropriate place for memory — Buddhist pagodas are associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves.

• potter's field
• plague pit