Buried in Unnamed Graves

Thousands of unidentified rotting corpses were buried. Conditions in the field make it difficult to identify the bodies.

January 4, 2005

HATTHARIQ languishes over the unpleasantness. He traveled from Lhok Seumawe to Banda Aceh to find his older sister, Husna. "I haven't found her yet," he said. He has searched in several locations, but to no avail. Identifying the body of a dead relative in Aceh is like looking for a needle in a haystack: all of the corpses are virtually indistinguishable.

Identifying the victims is never an easy task. Moreover, all of the corpse

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