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Bringing Up the Bodies in Bosnia

Matthew Bannister speaks to forensic anthropologist Esma Alicehajic about exhuming bodies left behind in mass graves after the Bosnian war.

Bosnian forensic anthropologist Esma Alicehajic is part of the team from the International Commission on Missing Persons working to exhume a series of mass graves left behind after the Bosnian war of the 1990s. Thousands of people disappeared and twenty years later grieving relatives are still waiting for news of their loved ones. She talks to Matthew about her work digging up the bodies.

This week on Outlook we focus on three of the 16 million American children whose families are struggling to get by as child poverty reaches record levels in the country. In the first of the three stories by British writer and film-maker Jezza Neuman we look at life through the eyes of 10-year-old Kaylie Haywood.

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(Photo: Perucac lake exhumation by Jasmin Agovic)

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Wed 5 Feb 2014 03:06GMT

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