They will help identify the dead, but also document how they died — information that can feed into war crimes investigations in the future. The organization is at the forefront of using new technology in their painstaking work to identify bodies from even the smallest samples. The ICMP has an online portal where people in Ukraine can anonymously report locations of bodies, and will help family members of the missing to provide DNA samples to help identify them. The commission was established to trace the dead from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. "I think under the circumstances while there’s an active conflict.”Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraineCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Source: Libya Today April 08, 2022 13:19 UTC