ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an exact account of the international response to the recovery, identification, and final repatriation of the remains of victims from the various conflicts of the former Yugoslavia. It concentrates on the effort within Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and some of the complexities of working as an international within a national framework, and I briefly outline the process of assistance in other regions of the former Yugoslavia. In 1997, small-scale recovery operations were being undertaken by the local Bosnian commissions on missing persons with limited assistance from international anthropologists. The use of international forensic archaeologists in International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) operations was designed to maximize the collection of critical forensic evidence along with the accurate mapping and recovery of remains that would then assist anthropologists and pathologists involved in the examination process.
