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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Missing persons | What the dead have to say | Economist.com

"What the dead have to say

Apr 17th 2008 | NICOSIA AND SARAJEVO
From The Economist print edition
The grim skills of identifying and analysing human remains are being transferred from one benighted place to another

AT THE new “family viewing facility” in the divided capital of Cyprus, human bones extracted from mass graves across the island are laid out on a long table covered with white cloth. Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots come to grieve for long-lost relatives, and to collect the bones for reburial."

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