They will help identify the dead, but also document how they died — information that can feed into war crimes investigations in the future. Bucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk said Thursday on Ukrainian television that at least three sites of mass shootings of civilians during the Russian occupation have been found. The organization is at the forefront of using new technology in their painstaking work to identify bodies from even the smallest samples. The commission was established to trace the dead from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Ukraine could prove to be one of its biggest challenges yet, as the organization works together with Ukrainian authorities to investigate and build cases amid an ongoing war.

Source: Libya Today April 08, 2022 21:42 UTC