Grave desecration

[2] The 3rd century Chinese text Lüshi Chunqiu advised mourners to plan simple burials to discourage looting.

[3] Illegal body snatching from graves provided cadavers for sale to medical schools for dissection during anatomy demonstrations.

In the mid-1850s, the villagers of Silwan were paid £100 annually by the Jews in an effort to prevent the desecration of graves on the Mount of Olives.

The teens were charged with criminal mischief after scrawling profanities on a steel plate and knocking over his grave marker.

Concerns arose that due to rapidly expanding cities because of the industrial revolution, burial graves were reused too quickly.

Graves were also demolished for parking lots and a filling station[18] and were used in latrines at a Jordanian Army barracks.

In October 2020, AFP and satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance first reported the razing of Uyghur cemeteries.

[23] In December 2023 the New York Times reported that Israeli forces razed six cemeteries in the Gaza Strip including in Shajaiye, Sheikh Ijlin, and Beit Lahia.

It also reported large holes have been created in cemeteries as a result of frequent Israeli attacks, engulfing dozens of graves, and the remains of some dead bodies have been scattered or have disappeared.

Viral videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum and desecrated the graves of Hafez and his eldest son, Bassel al-Assad.

[27] For instance NY Penal Law § 145.23: Cemetery desecration involves attempts to: vandalize, spray paint, or steal from places that are used for human interment.

1906) as long as people recognize that an area serves as a graveyard it remains a sacred place, even if there are no new burials and the graves are neglected.