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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.
Mr Silva dug up a mass grave containing not just his grandfather but a dozen other victims.News of the exhumations spread and imitators appeared.
After the deadline, the government will, at the taxpayer's expense, arrange exhumations and cremations, and store the ashes for three years in a columbarium.
But the sheer scale of the atrocities committed on the other side have come to light only recently, in a flood of books and exhumations of mass graves.
More retrospective exhumations are in the pipeline, along with an album of new material (comprised of fresh recordings of classics from the back catalogue) as well as a DVD of footage from the Human Skab reunion tour.
Juan Luis Castro, an archaeologist who has been present at more than half the exhumations of civil war graves in Andalusia, says: "The graves and execution sites were mainly at the sides of cemeteries, where the atheists and suicides, as well as huge numbers of unbaptised children, were buried during the Franco years".
In 2008, Baltasar Garzón, one of the country's most prominent investigating magistrates, ordered the exhumations.
They are now one DNA test away from settling the matter, but so far have been denied permission for the necessary exhumations.
In my opinion, exhumations can be a valuable research tool.
Some ethicists and legal scholars hope to create better frameworks for answering these questions, perhaps through the creation of "biohistorical review boards" that could analyze requests for exhumations and other analyses of the dead, much like the review boards that now weigh applications for studies involving living human subjects.
