Srebrenica: The scientist determined to name the last of the dead - BBC News

A forensic anthropologist tries to put names to the last 1,000 unidentified dead of a Bosnian War genocide.

10 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsSrebrenica massacreImage caption, Dragana (L) is committed to finishing the gruelling task of identifying the Srebrenica massacre victimsBy Fergal KeaneBBC NewsDragana Vucetic was just out of college as a newly qualified forensic anthropologist when she was drawn into one of the darkest episodes of modern European history. The call came to help put names to the unidentified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War.

Now, nearly 30 years after the killings, she is determined to identify the last of the dead - a task that seems all the more pertinent amid increasing Serb denial about what really happened.

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The gruelling task of naming the dead

Dragana is in her early 40s, a quietly-spoken figure working alone among the bones in the mortuary at Tuzla in north-eastern Bosnia. Her every gesture is measured and careful. A broken leg bone is being reassembled. The injury may have happened when the victim was murdered, or date from a time before the genocide. Slowly the evidence of the who, where and how of death will take shape. Then the family will be told.