Naslov
Identification of the dead in war: the case of the twenty killed Croatian soldiers found near Pakrac

Autori
Škavić, Josip ; Zečević, Dušan ; Strinović, Davor ; Gusić, Stjepan ; Čadež, Josip ; Kubat, Milovan ; Mošunjac, Mario ; Marušić, Ana

Izvornik
Croatian medical journal (0353-9504) 33 (1992), 2; 216-219

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Forensic expertise ; Identification ; War

Sažetak
This paper describes the method of identification of twenty members of the Croatian Police and National Guard killed and buried by Serbian terrorists and Yugoslav Federal Army soldiers near the village of Kusonje on September 8, 1991. They were exhumated almost five months later. Forensic expertise revealed extensive postmortal changes, so that the mechanisms of deaths could not be established with certainty. Three cadavers had hands tied with pieces of wire, and one of them the legs tied with a wire. One of the cadavers had his penis cut off with a sharp object. The authors suggest an identification procedure suitable for a large number of cadavers in war circumstances.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Temeljne medicinske znanosti, Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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