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Over the past week, the team has worked to finish identifications of the individuals in the first mass grave.

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Lab analysis by the light of our headlamps. Photo Credit: Franco Mora (Reposted from I’d Advise Against the Camel Milk)

Sign marking the mass grave. Photo credit: Leslie Naranjo (Reposted from I’d Advise Against the Camel Milk) 

CJA client Aziz Deria at Badkha 2 gravesite with relatives of missing persons in the 1984 massacre.

Grave two starts to emerge…

On Friday, families showed up at the site for an antemortem interview. The grave is being excavated and the bodies of at least five people are visible.

To be able to change someone’s fate by retrieving them from a pit of horror and return them to their family and loved ones for a future with a proper burial full of respect and love is the most honourable thing I have ever had the opportunity to partake in.

We have found the grave.

After a moving ceremony this morning, we began the process of exhumation at the site known as Badkha 2.