Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
03OTTAWA2332
2003-08-11 13:41:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ottawa
Cable title:  

MASS GRAVES PROJECT IN IRAQ: CANADA PLANS TO ASSIST

Tags:  PREL PHUM EAID KCRM IZ CA 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 002332

SIPDIS

STATE FOR DRL (SANDRA HODGKINSON),INL AND WHA/CAN

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/14/2013
TAGS: PREL PHUM EAID KCRM IZ CA
SUBJECT: MASS GRAVES PROJECT IN IRAQ: CANADA PLANS TO ASSIST

REF: HQ CPA BAGHDAD TELEGRAM DTG 111341Z AUG 03

Classified By: Acting Political Minister Counselor Mary Witt,
Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d).

(C) Canada plans to provide a forensics team to assist with
exhumation at mass grave sites in Iraq (reftel). Wendy
Gilmore of Foreign Affairs' Regional Security Office told us
that Canadian police are experienced in this area, having
done similar work at mass grave sites in Kosovo and Bosnia.
The personnel the GoC would call on are currently doing an
investigation at a mass murder site in the Vancouver area,
but they should be available by early fall. Gilmore said the
police would want to know whether the exhumation is being
done to account for individuals, build a case for a possible
tribunal, or both, as this would affect how the sites are
handled. Gilmore will be in touch with Sandra Hodgkinson to
discuss this further.
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