 Mayor Jean @-@ Yves Jason said that officials argued for hours about what to do with the volume of corpses . The government buried many in mass graves , some above @-@ ground tombs were forced open so bodies could be stacked inside , and others were burned . Mass graves were dug in a large field outside the settlement of <unk> , north of the capital ; tens of thousands of bodies were reported as having been brought to the site by dump truck and buried in trenches dug by earth <unk> . Max <unk> , a <unk> priest , protested the lack of dignity in mass burials , stating , " ... it is not in our culture to bury people in such a fashion , it is <unk> " . 
