“THE impossible became possible.” That is how Piotr Druiker, a forensic archaeologist, has described the progress of the effort to identify victims of war and genocide in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
So far, the bodies of over 6000 of the 40,000 or so people thought killed during the conflict have been identified. And the figure is increasing by 400 to 500 every month. Most of the missing have been found in mass graves. But identification was hampered because the perpetrators tried to conceal their crimes by excavating the large pits and redistributing the bodies among smaller graves.…
