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Keep looking for the dead, don’t kill the hope

When people die during war or disaster, or while migrating, their bodies must be handled respectfully and with dignity; and the remains of unknown individuals must be searched for, recovered and identified.

In an interview with Haaretz Weekly Magazine, Morris Tidball-Binz, head of the humanitarian forensic identification unit of the ICRC, talks about the importance of forensic science in humanitarian action.

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