Bosnia's Million Bones

The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists and human rights experts have developed ground-breaking technology to identify victims' remains. 'Solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle' was how one leading forensic scientist described the vast operation to exhume fro [...]
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The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists and human rights experts have developed ground-breaking technology to identify victims' remains. 'Solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle' was how one leading forensic scientist described the vast operation to exhume from mass graves and identify the remains of the thousands of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. In 2000, one DNA laboratory run by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) in Sarajevo, founded on the initiative of Bill Clinton, set about cracking the code to this puzzle. Thirteen years later, the ICMP are world leaders in using DNA-assisted technology to help identify the thousands of worldwide victims of wars, mass human-rights abuses, and natural disasters. This is the riveting story of how the organization perfected its ground-breaking technology, and how it has helped Libya, Iraq, Chile, and many other countries find and identify their missing persons, as well as helping to identify the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and even soldiers from World War II.Bosnia's Million Bones is captivating and cutting edge, a story of modern forensics and the quest for truth. It is the story of real-life CSI.