NOT ABLE TO ESTIMATE THE PROBABILITY OF THE REMAINS BEING AT CILHI

In an ideal world it would be an advantage to be able to estimate the probability of the remains of one or more of our six men being amongst the accessions held at CILHI. Theoretically this could be done by calculating the ratio of remains recovered from a given area against the initial total of personnel not recovered from that area. A lack of contextual evidence regarding the discovery of remains precludes this being done. For example, in the Vietnam context, remains were often moved into or out of the respective incident areas, or even into or out of the respective provinces, before being recovered. It is simply not possible to estimate any such probability in the case of Vietnam using raw arithmetic. The best we can say that so far there has been a 20% success rate in the recovery and identification of the initial number.

 


This page was last updated on 19 November 2003.