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Developing standards in international forensic work to identify missing persons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

Stephen Cordner  and
Helen McKelvie
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 84 , Issue 848: Missing persons/Personnes disparues , December 2002 , pp. 867 - 884
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2002

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