Affiliation:
1. Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. In 1990–91 he conducted excavations into mass graves of the Holocaust in Ukraine. From 1997 to 2000 he was chief archaeologist for the UN's investigations of mass graves in Bosnia. Currently (2009) he is senior forensic adviser for Oxford Archaeology's task of recovering and identifying bodies from World War I mass graves at Fromelles, in north-east France.
Abstract
Abstract
The subject of this essay is the judicial context of bodies from mass graves. I shall discuss topics that exemplify the power that flows from being able to display bodies to courts. By contrast, and where there are no bodies to show, a lazy prosecution case can be weakened by the unnecessary lack of material evidence. Particularly vulnerable are cases that depend on the statements of eye-witnesses. I shall discuss efforts by revisionists to protect their positions. These efforts include denying that there are any bodies as well as claims that the number of bodies is less than expected and that the bodies are attributable to unrelated events. These discussions will be illustrated with critical evidentiary photos.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
Museology,History,Conservation
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