Mrs Arafat, who refused to allow an autopsy when her husband died in a Paris hospital in November 2004, said yesterday she would be asking for an exhumation, telling Al-Jazeera: "We must go further and exhume Yasser Arafat's body to reveal the truth to the Muslim and Arab world".
Detective Chief Inspector Philip McTavish, of Hampshire police, said: "Following the exhumation of the suspect on Wednesday 12 August, the Forensic Science Service has now completed DNA testing and comparisons against DNA found at the original crime scene.
Oddly for a government trying to prove its impartiality, the symbolic first exhumation is to take place in an overtly pro-Ouattara setting.Aminata Cissé, aged 24, says the exhumations will help victims' parents reclaim dignity for their children.
Since exhumation is also strictly forbidden under Islam, and bodies must be buried as soon as possible, 90% of Germany's Muslims are flown home to be buried once they die.
They have been too busy counting their dead.In Jenin refugee camp, scene of the greatest carnage during Israel's 21-day reoccupation of six West Bank cities, 45 Palestinian corpses were dug out of the rubble, an exhumation made inordinately slow by a lack of local expertise in rescue techniques and by the army's continuing hindrance of humanitarian access to the camp.
Where possible, exhumation will follow, though this can wait until next spring if need be: evidence in undisturbed graves stays valid for years.The physical evidence gathered by forensic teams will be collated with testimony from refugees, aerial surveillance, communications intercepts and other intelligence from NATO countries.
Descendants of those in the graves that lie in the way of the road have until April 15th to register for exhumation, and until May 31st to arrange a private disinterment.
But Italians have developed a fad for high-profile exhumation.
And the Obama campaign's remorseless exhumation of every lay-off, factory closure or cut in benefits that occurred at the firms that Bain Capital invested in when Mr Romney was in charge of the private-equity firm have left many working-class voters who feel strongly about social issues mistrustful of him for different reasons.Mr Obama has his vulnerabilities in this area, too.
Mandela's widow Graca Machel has for the most part stayed clear of these rows.Mandla and Makaziwe have been at the centre of particularly bitter disputes in the past few years, most notably over the exhumation of bodies, including that of one of Mandela's sons, from a family burial plot.
He assembled a team of students and, under the wary noses of the police and using chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant, demonstrated how careful exhumation could attach names to the bodies.
