Marley's remains 'to be exhumed'
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The wife of reggae legend Bob Marley says she plans to exhume his remains and re-bury them in Ethiopia.
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KEVLJANI, Bosnia  - Forensic experts said Friday  they had found remains of 182 people, believed to have been  wartime prisoners killed by Bosnian Serb forces, in a mass  grave in western Bosnia and that they expected to find more.
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Investigators have exhumed the remains of 14 victims of paramilitary violence buried in a municipal cemetery in northern Colombia without proper funerals, authorities said Tuesday.
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Forensic officers are ready to carry out an "unprecedented" exhumation after seven suspicious deaths at a care home.
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Forensics experts said today they had exhumed 405 bodies from a mass grave, making it the second-largest such site found in Bosnia since the end of the 1992-95 war.
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Somalia's government vowed on Saturday to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them near Mogadishu's airport.
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Suspected mass graves of East Timorese  killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Indonesian rule are to  be excavated by Australian forensic experts to try and identify  hundreds of people slain by Jakarta's security forces.
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Forensic experts have exhumed 249 bodies from a mass grave in northeastern Bosnia containing victims of the country's devastating 1992-95 war, an official said Thursday.
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A post-mortem examination is to be carried out on the body of a man found in east Belfast.
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In a case that the sheriff predicted would have a "bizarre ending," authorities today resumed work at the site where the remains of a pregnant Marine are thought to have been buried.
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A military judge Tuesday approved a request to exhume the body of an Iraqi who prosecutors say drowned after being shoved into the Tigris River by U.S. troops.
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Sixty-one years after Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, one of his grandsons has demanded that his remains be exhumed and an official post-mortem carried out.
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Police are exhuming the bodies of three pensioners in connection with their inquiry into a doctor charged with murder.
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As nameless bodies are bulldozed into mass graves, the lack of physical remains is intensifying the grief for families still wondering about missing loved ones.
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The Israeli military wants to exhume the body of a 13-year-old girl shot dead in Gaza by soldiers last month.
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Campaigners for animal rights condemn the desecration of a grave in which a woman's remains were stolen.
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This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours - Rouen deputy mayor Catherine Morin-Desailly PARIS (New York Times) - Since 1875, the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior has been part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy. But when Rouen's mayor arranged recently to return it to New Zealand as an act of "atonement" for colonial-era trafficking in human remains, the national Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him. The ministry contends that the head is a work of art that belongs to France and that its return could set an unfortunate precedent for a huge swath of national museum collections - from Egyptian mummies in the Louvre to Asian treasures in the MusÃ©e Guimet and African and Oceanic artifacts in the MusÃ©e du Quai Branly. "The mayor of Rouen made his decision without any consultation, and his decision is against the law," Olivier Henrard, the legal adviser for the Ministry of Culture, said.  "There are other Maori heads, there are mummies, there are religious relics in France," he said. "If we don't respect the law today, tomorrow other museums or elected officials might decide to send them back, too." Rouen officials insist that the Maori head is a body part, not artwork, and that due to France's bioethics law it must be returned to its place of origin. "This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours," said Catherine Morin-Desailly, Rouen's deputy mayor, who proposed the return. "It belongs to the heritage of humanity, not in storage somewhere in a museum."  The Maoris traditionally preserved the tattooed heads of warriors killed in battle to keep their memory alive. Trade in body parts flourished in the 19th century, as contact with outsiders increased. Europeans collected Maori remains. Some Maori slaves were forcibly tattooed, then decapitated.  Morin-Desailly cites French precedent concerning the return of human remains: Those of Saartjie Baartman - the "Hottentot Venus" as she was labeled in her day. A farmer's slave born in 1789, she was sold to a British Marine surgeon and presented in public in London and later in Paris as a freak because of her oversized buttocks and genitalia.