About the book: year / An internationally renowned forensic expert examines the remains of civilians at the sites of military conflicts of recent decades: in Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia. To bring charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, the UN needs to prove that the bodies found are civilians. To do this, two questions need to be answered: who the victims were and how they were killed. The only people who can answer these questions are forensic anthropologists. One of them is the author of this book, Clea Coff. At just 23 years old, Clea Coff traveled to Rwanda, joining a group of scientists excavating human remains to study the genocide of the Tutsi. In the future, she will have to study mass graves in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, and what she sees will change her forever. Her book is part memoir, part field diary about what she saw: the exhumation of nearly five hundred bodies from a single grave in Kibuya, Rwanda; the discovery of victims of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia tied up with wire; excavations in Kosovo in front of the victims' relatives, and much, much more. Recounting the sometimes harrowing details of his work - hellish working conditions, UN bureaucracy and dealing with the grief of survivors - Koff imbues his story with a great sense of hope, humanity and justice. She is convinced that while authorities may distort versions of what happened, the bones never lie. “The beauty and importance of Koff’s work, as well as her passion for her craft, is most evident as she bends over a mass grave, untangling limbs, clearing clothes of dirt and seeing human stories in this horror... A fascinating and worth reading book.” – The Washington Post Book World “Koff knows that bones can talk, and simply allows the remains she unearths to speak... It is the detached descriptions, devoid of sensationalism or sentimentality, that give her book such power.” —Maureen Corrigan, literary critic, Ph.D. “Clea Koff's book provides unique insight into both the role of the forensic anthropologist and the role of the UN tribunal's forensic team...Yet, despite all the forensic details, it is a personal story about a deep sense of connection with the dead and an unshakable sense of duty to them." – Sunday TimesThe book's publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.