A Guardian special report looked at the work the the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) does in identifying victims from mass graves and bringing suspected war criminals to justice.
The report, entitled 'From Bosnia to Syria: the investigators identifying victims of genocide', quotes Adam Boys, the organisation's chief operating officer, as saying,
The report, entitled 'From Bosnia to Syria: the investigators identifying victims of genocide', quotes Adam Boys, the organisation's chief operating officer, as saying,
"You simply cannot kill tens, hundreds or thousands of people and expect to get away with it"See the full special report here.
"I strongly believe that this message will be increasingly reinforced so that military leaders or their governments will consider hard before they commit crimes: ICMP's legacy and the legacies of similar institutions that support the rule of law could be a diminution in the number and scale of atrocities."