Thousands more, who might have died naturally and remained buried, were exhumed en masse.
In Tikrit, Shia militias had to be pulled out after looting and revenge attacks on Sunni residents; last year hundreds of Shia soldiers were executed, and their bodies are now being exhumed.
A murky Sunni group claimed responsibility.Yasser Arafat probably died of natural causes in 2004, according to a leaked report by French experts who examined his exhumed body.
More than 100 statues, friezes, ceramics and other objects have been exhumed from storage by curators from Tate and the Yale Centre for British Art.
The Ottoman sultan, Abdul Hamid II, ordered the sarcophagi exhumed, placed on rails and carried down to the Mediterranean coast, where they were sent by ship to Istanbul.
See articleThe remains of Pierre de Brazza, a French explorer who died in 1905, were exhumed in Algeria and placed in a mausoleum in Brazzaville, Congo's capital city.Tensions increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of a presidential run-off election.
See articleAfter inspecting samples from the exhumed remains and possessions of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died in 2004, scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland, issued a report saying that they "moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210".
A National Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported in the early 1990s, but Chileans have only just learned, for example, that the bodies of many of those who disappeared during the dictatorship were exhumed in the late 1970s and dumped in the sea.Almost 1,200 people vanished, but fewer than 200 bodies have been recovered.
He was speaking after 28 bodies were exhumed from clandestine graves near the city of Iguala where the standoff occurred; 22 officers are being held in connection with the incident.The last military ruler of Argentina, Reynaldo Bignone, received a 23-year jail sentence on top of the life term he is serving already.
THE world watches Gaza, Yasser Arafat's body is exhumed, Catalonia holds regional elections and a former ANC youth leader goes on trial in South Africa.
No wonder the Serb authorities dumped them unceremoniously in their graves, to be exhumed later by their families for decent Muslim burials.The foreign ministers of the big western powers who gathered in London on March 9th told Serbia that it must not do to Kosovo's Albanians what it did to Bosnia's Muslims just a few years ago.
