Rwanda

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This paper reviews the proper forensic procedure for digging up mass graves, such as the ones in Rwanda following the genocide there. The paper comments that the well-known forensic doctor William Haglund worked in Rwanda unearthing mass graves that resulted from the genocide that took place there in the 1990s. The paper continues and reviews the work of forensic anthropologists Karen Ramey Burns and Bill Blass.

From the Paper:

"The book by Stanley Rhine points out that in order to create a face on a skull is a "slow, exacting process" requiring artistic talent and it is helpful to have "close collaboration between the artist and an anthropologist." And after an artist has reproduced a few faces, "a powerful urge to do something a little out of the ordinary begins to manifest itself," the author explains. Maybe the artist wishes to put a scar on the face (where there was one), or a hooknose, or a pair of large ears, just to add drama; this would be a potential abuse of facial reconstruction."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bass, Bill; & Jefferson, Jon. (2003). Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
• Burns, Karen Ramey. (2006). Department of Anthropology Faculty. Retrieved July 29, 2007, From http://www.anthro.uga.edu/people/burns.htm.
• Cornwell, Patricia Daniels (1990). Postmortem. New York: Charles Scribner's Son. McGray, Douglas. (2001). Unearthing Grave Offenses. Foreign Policy, No. 126, 86-87.
• Rhine, Stanley. (1998). Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

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