An edition of Bosnia's million bones (2013)

Bosnia's million bones

solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle

First edition.

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An edition of Bosnia's million bones (2013)

Bosnia's million bones

solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle

First edition.

The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia. What would it be like to be tasked with finding, exhuming from dozens of mass graves, and then identifying the mangled body-parts of an estimated 8,100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia? A leading forensic scientist likened it to "solving the world's greatest forensic science puzzle," and in 1999 one DNA laboratory, run by the International Commission on Missing Persons in Sarajevo, decided to do just that. Thirteen years on, the ICMP are the international leaders in using DNA-assisted technology to assist in identifying the thousands of persons worldwide missing from wars, mass human-rights abuses and natural disasters. Christian Jennings, a foreign correspondent and former staffer at the ICMP, tells the story of the organization, and how they are now gathering forensic evidence of those killed in Libya and Iraq, and tracing the victims of brutal regimes in Chile and Colombia. He describes too how they helped identify the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami, in this moving and fast-paced story about the power of science to bring justice to broken countries. Now used as evidence at war crimes trials in The Hague, the technology described in Bosnia's Million Bones is an amazing story of modern science, politics, and the quest for truth. It is real-life CSI in action.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
241

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Bosnia's million bones: solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle
2013, St. Martin's Press
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Bosnia's Million Bones: Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle
2013, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

How does a country recover after a genocide? Sarajevo, summer 2012
Separating the men from the women and children in Srebrenica
How the killers tried to hide the evidence
Digging up the evidence of mass murder
Inside Kosovo, Serbia, and the world of the missing
Building a human identification system
The wind of change in Serbia
The world of the missing, post-9/11
Global operations begin
Rule of law, not rule of war
Ratko Mladic's last request
From Srebrenica to Kurdistan, Brazzaville, and Libya.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.15/10949742
Library of Congress
HV8073 .J456 2013, RA1059

The Physical Object

Pagination
241 pages
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27152210M
Internet Archive
bosniasmillionbo0000jenn
ISBN 10
1137278684
ISBN 13
9781137278685
LCCN
2013014615
OCLC/WorldCat
841198204
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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