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Management, exhumation and identification of human remains: A viewpoint of the developing world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

Alex Kirasi Olumbe  and
Ahmed Kalebi Yakub
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 84 , Issue 848: Missing persons/Personnes disparues , December 2002 , pp. 893 - 902
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2002

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1 “Missing persons” in the context of this article refers to persons whose whereabouts are unknown by relatives and who consequently have been presumed dead, and those who are known to have died but whose remains have not been recovered or positively identified.

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