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29. August 2002 |
DNA laboratory opens in Belgrade
BELGRADE – A laboratory for the analysis of DNA will be officially opened in the Institute for Forensic Sciences of the Belgrade Medical School on September 10, Radio B92 learnt today.
The laboratory, which is the first of its kind in the country, will boast state-of-the-art equipment.
Preparations have already been carried out for using the new resource to identify the remains of people missing in wars in the former Yugoslavia.
The laboratory was established by the International Commission for the Search for Missing Persons.
The Commission has invested a million dollars in equipment for the laboratory.
The director of the new facility, Oliver Stojkovic, said that it meant that the region was now better equipped, because there are already three such laboratories in Bosnia and one in Croatia.
“We shall work on determining a DNA profile form the samples of bones and blood of missing people’s relatives. We don’t know to whom those blood samples belong, or from which pit the bones have been obtained,” said Stojkovic.
He added that the facility was expected to identify 40,000 bodes over the next three
years. After that the laboratory would revert to routine crime work.
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