This particular grave, according to what we were told by those in charge of the project, was a "secondary" grave, i.e. the bodies were reburied here in a place where the remains would be less easily discovered. Hence the bodies are not whole and often families receive remains over a number of years as they are identified.
[Pictures by Joshua D. Clark]
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Thank you for posting these horrible photos. One photo is worth more than a thousand words.
As the director general of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), Kathryne Bomberger recently pointed out in NEWSWEEK:
Quote: "In 1999 we had hit a brick wall in making identifications—if there was no body there was no crime. After [former U.S. secretary of State] Madeleine Albright said [the United States] had satellite photos showing mass graves, the perpetrators went out and dug the bodies and moved them. We found one body in four different locations 50km [30 miles] apart."
Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18614278/site/newsweek/
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