A team has begun the painstaking work of identifying the remains of the disappeared, but it could take years.
A team has begun the painstaking work of identifying the remains of the disappeared, but it could take years.
By Harriet Tatham and Sandra Gathmann
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Damascus, Syria – In the basement of a nondescript building in Damascus is the Syrian Identification Centre’s forensic laboratory with storage units full of human bones.
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