6.5 Roles of Forensic Medicine in Extra-Judicial Killings and Disappearances

1. The extra-judicial killings' investigation: the death-scene's independent examination (the staged-encounter's exposure: the wounds' range-and-direction — the close-range's evidence; the restraint marks (the hands' binding); the false-recovery's questions); the exhumation's role (the buried's recovery — the second-autopsy's duty); the ballistic-and-injury correlation (the LAW5510-U10 interface).2. The disappearances' forensic machinery: the missing's search (the database's-and- antemortem data); the found-remains' identification (the DNA (the LAW5510-U5.5's missing- persons machinery); the dental-and-skeletal); the death's determination (the remains' analysis: the cause, the time, the manner); the return to the families (the identification's humanitarian duty — the closure's right).3. The Nepal conflict's faces (U5.7-of-LAW5509's companion): the disappeared's thousands (the truth commissions' complaints — the exhumation's-and-identification's pending duty; the pilot exhumations' record); the international standards (the Minnesota Protocol's exhumation guidance; the ICRC's the-missing's standards).