|
CMP calls for additional funding to speed up work
The representative of the Greek Cypriot
side to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) Mr Elias Georgiades has
underlined the Committee's need of financial assistance in order to
accelerate its exhumation project. Speaking yesterday to the Cyprus
News Agency (CNA) and invited to comment on last week's findings of
human remains at the courtyard of a church in occupied Kythrea, Mr
Georgiades said it was not yet clear whether that was a missing
persons' burial site or an old cemetery. This will be examined, he
said, in collaboration with the Antiquities Department and after
evaluating the testimonies of the old inhabitants of the area.
Mr Georgiades further noted that the scientists of the Committee were
currently working at the anthropological laboratory completing their
reports on the exhumations carried out thus far, something which he
said was very time-consuming. The exhumations will resume again on
Monday, he added.
Referring to the exhumations being carried out in the area of Gerasa,
in Limassol, Mr Georgiades said they were coming to an end. The exhumed
remains so far are believed to belong to 33 persons, he asserted,
noting that an entire mountain had to be shifted for the exhumations to
take place. Regarding the exhumations in the Dhali area, he said they
were completed without any result.
13.08.2008
|
