...adding that some MPs have suggested that these specifications should be included in death certificates of individuals that have already been identified.
http://famagusta-gazette.com/cause-of-d ... 471-69.htm
Death certificates of missing persons, whose remains have been identified via DNA analysis, will now include the cause of death and a brief report on the events that led to their death. Up until now, the death certificate which was given to the relatives, indicated “unknown” as cause of death.
...courage from the Committee of Missing Persons, a raising of the Bar, for Justice, seen.
As a result of the invasion, 1,619 Greek Cypriots were listed as missing, most of whom soldiers or reservists, who were captured in the battlefield. Among them, however, were many civilians, women and children, arrested by the Turkish invasion troops and Turkish Cypriot paramilitary groups, within the area controlled by the Turkish army after the end of hostilities and far from the battlefield.
Many of those missing were last seen alive in the hands of the Turkish military.
A further 41 more cases of Greek Cypriot missing persons have been recently added. These cases concern the period between 1963-1964, when inter-communal fighting broke out but none of them has been identified yet.
The number of Turkish Cypriot missing since 1974 and 1963/64 stands at 503. Exhumations are carried out on both sides of the buffer zone by bi-communal teams (6 teams in the north and 2 teams in the south) made of over 55 Cypriot archaeologists and anthropologists.
Bi-communal teams are now autonomous after having been trained by international experts from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) during the first 18 months of the project.
