IDENTIFICATION OF WAR VICTIMS IN CROATIA

Citation
D. Strinovic et al., IDENTIFICATION OF WAR VICTIMS IN CROATIA, Medicine, Science and the Law, 34(3), 1994, pp. 207-212
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Legal",Law,Pathology
ISSN journal
00258024
Volume
34
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
207 - 212
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-8024(1994)34:3<207:IOWVIC>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The intention of this paper is to describe the organizational principl es and indicate the results already achieved in the identification of war victims in Croatia. By 25 February 1993, 6,493 victims had been id entified. A model is proposed that could be used in the course of iden tification processes, examining the methods and principles of identifi cation which have been complicated by the time interval of more than a year from the time of death, for a presumed number of several thousan d (up to 14,000) unidentified victims, possibly in mass graves. Identi fication is further complicated by the lack of ante-mortem medical and dental records and the incapacity to utilize more expensive methods o f identification. Attention is drawn to a group of more complex cases examined at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology.