Sentences with phrase «grave exhumations»

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The empty grave was forensically predictable: according to the opinion of medical professionals present for the exhumation, the sodden clay native to the area, coupled with the mold in which Newman insisted his casket be enshrouded, rendered conditions ideal for the quickened and complete decomposition of a corpse.

Since 1992, FAFG has carried out 191 exhumations of mass grave sites.

In Cambodia and other countries, however, the exhumation of mass graves from recent violent atrocities, the analysis of the human remains found within, and the ensuing disposition of these remains are not without controversy.

[12] Although politically sanctioned, the exhumation of Argentine mass graves in the 1980s and 1990s were opposed by mothers of the missing and other surviving relatives.

[1, 2] Forensic anthropologists are regularly responsible for the exhumation of (mass) graves, analysis of human skeletal material, collecting and analyzing ante-mortem (before death) data to assist with the identification of decedents, and providing legal testimony.

[8, 9] In many post-atrocity nations, as Rosenblatt states, religious leaders citing various beliefs have objected «to exhumation, autopsy, and other forensic practices, even when the mass graves in question contained crucial evidence of atrocities committed against their own members.»