OVERALL IDENTIFICATION
PROCESS
The overall process
followed by JPAC involves:
1. ANALYSIS.
2. IN-COUNTRY
FIELD INVESTIGATION .
3. RECOVERY OPERATIONS.
4 IDENTIFICATION.
5. CLOSURE.
Go to the JPAC site to get it from the horse's mouth.
The FRS provided by families forms part of the evidence
related to the individual who is unaccounted for.
Individual Case
Work. By way
of explanation, after looking at the above-mentioned JPAC reference, my
understanding of the way that CILHI approach the identification process is
as follows:
1. When remains are
recovered, the forensic experts at CILHI produce
a "biological profile" of the deceased by examining the
remains etc.
2. Attempts are then made to match
this profile back to persons not accounted for.
3. The mtDNA
profile derived from the FRS supplied by the families is used as one of the
tools to assist in this matching process.
What I am trying to explain here is that
various FRS are called
forward for matching against recoveries that have been made, as opposed to a
family's FRS being matched against all accessions held at CILHI.
Therefore it takes time to get anything like a final answer. In
any case, since remains will probably continue to be recovered from