Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, PO Box 21642, Nicosia 1590, Cyprus.
Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, PO Box 21642, Nicosia 1590, Cyprus.
Forensic Sci Int. 2021 Mar;320:110679. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110679. Epub 2021 Jan 23.
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) is a bicommunal committee established in 1981, tasked to determine the fate of 2002 individuals who went missing during the intercommunal fighting of 1963-64 and the events of 1974. The CMP operates strictly within a humanitarian framework, using a multidisciplinary approach to conclude individual identifications of remains exhumed throughout the island, where all information obtained from different phases of the CMP Project is integrated and assessed in a comprehensive manner. By 2017, although over 1000 sets of remains were recovered and either identified or resolved by the CMP, 137 challenging cases remained unidentified at the CMP Anthropological Laboratory. To resolve these cases, different strategies were adopted where the investigatory component was enhanced through the implementation of new data mining approaches, and the genetic-related data were revised and updated through the adoption of new DNA technologies and the improvement of the Family Reference Samples Database. These new approaches resulted in a dramatic reduction of the number of unidentified cases (by over 70 %) as well as the timeframe required for future identifications. These approaches could serve as an example in other humanitarian contexts facing similar challenges as they can have a profound impact on the families of missing persons.
塞浦路斯失踪人员调查委员会（CMP）是一个由 1981 年成立的双语委员会，负责确定在 1963-64 年的族裔间冲突和 1974 年事件中失踪的 2002 人的命运。CMP 严格在人道主义框架内运作，采用多学科方法对从全岛挖掘出的遗骸进行个人身份鉴定，其中从 CMP 项目不同阶段获得的所有信息都以综合的方式进行整合和评估。到 2017 年，尽管 CMP 已经找回并确认或解决了 1000 多组遗骸，但 CMP 人类学实验室仍有 137 个具有挑战性的案例未被识别。为了解决这些案例，采用了不同的策略，通过实施新的数据挖掘方法来加强调查部分，并通过采用新的 DNA 技术和改进家族参考样本数据库来修订和更新遗传相关数据。这些新方法使未识别案例的数量（减少了 70%以上）以及未来识别所需的时间框架都显著减少。这些方法可以为面临类似挑战的其他人道主义背景提供一个范例，因为它们可以对失踪人员的家属产生深远的影响。
