Guidance document

Searching for missing persons in Northeast Syria: assessment & recommendations for the first responders' team

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Author
Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense
Publication Year
2020
Region
Near and Middle East
Thematic Area
Forensics / The Search Process
Topic
Burial Site / Mass Grave / Identification / Management of the Dead / Recovery of remains / Excavation / Exhumation
Access
Open access

SJAC, in collaboration with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), has begun providing technical trainings in mass grave exhumation and documentation to the First Responders’ Team (FRT) working to open mass graves in Northeast Syria. These trainings are part of SJAC’s larger efforts to address the thousands of missing persons in the aftermath of ISIS’s territorial defeat. Its new missing persons program combines technical trainings with documentation and a close collaboration with families of the missing to start laying the ground work for identification of remains as well as collecting evidence of ISIS’s crimes.

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