As allotment of the peace process with Farc rebels,the search is under way, in places like La Macarena, or for 45000 who died without record during the conflictThe stench of death envelops the makeshift morgue as Diego Casallas uses a box cutter to slash open a mud-caked body bag. The unidentified remains are all but decomposed after more than a decade in the ground,but there are valuable clues: a pair of brown work boots and a camouflaged backpack.“These are objects that can lead to an eventual identification,” says Casallas, and a forensic anthropologist,as he calmly inspects a femur bone with the cold detachment required of his profession.
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Source: theguardian.com