The ICMP has helped identify two-thirds of those.
Testing kits, of the kind Mr Bajunovic has taken to Nairobi, are cheap, quick and effective.Now the ICMP is looking for new work.
Germany is mulling over help too.The result would be what its director, Kathryne Bomberger, calls a "birth certificate" for the ICMP.
In all these cases DNA, if taken and traced, could restore names to the dead and put an end to miserable uncertainty for their families.But the ICMP needs more clout.
Families register their DNA and then look on the ICMP website to see if it matches the remains which have been found.
But thanks to Interpol the Kenyan authorities are getting help from an unexpected quarter: a Bosnia-based organisation which uses DNA testing to trace victims of the Yugoslav wars.The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) sounds grand but has just 150 people and a core budget of under €7m ($9.5m) a year.
We used to go into the police stations that were supposed to be helping us, and see pictures of ourselves on the wall: 'Do Not Cooperate with These People'!" To that end, ICMP stepped in, not just to help look for bodies and nurture the expertise to do so, but to "assist" the Bosnian government in turning a haphazard, sectarian search into a systematised, centralised operation.
For nearly two decades, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), of which I am director general, has worked with families of the missing, local Bosnian authorities and domestic and international courts to locate and identify the victims of Srebrenica.
In 1999, ICMP made the decision to harness a new technology, DNA, to identify the victims.
They were led by a French investigator called Jean-René Ruez, an anthropologist called Richard Wright, who had worked on second world war graves in Ukraine, and a former archaeologist of ancient and medieval London, Ian Hanson – who is now deputy director of forensic sciences, anthropology and archaeology at ICMP.
The driving force behind this search for the missing dead is the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), founded in 1996 on the basis of an initiative by President Bill Clinton.
