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(27 Nov 2004) SHOTLIST Sarajevo, 22 November 2004 1. Pan from DNA laboratory workers at International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) to Iraqi delegation watching 2. Lab worker examining data 3. Iraqi delegates being briefed by ICMP medical staff 4. Various shots of lab workers examining samples 5. Lab worker briefing the ICMP UPSOUND: (English) "A 12 gram piece of bone is often plenty for DNA testing." 6. Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin and head of ICMP Katheryne Boomberger shaking hands 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bakhtiar Amin, Iraqi Human Rights Minister: "We need many more people (to help). We're talking about a country with over one (m) million missing persons and hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves. Saddam turned Iraq into a museum of crimes, into a land of mass graves." 8. Doctor working on samples 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Katheryne Boomberger, Head of International Commission on Missing Persons: "Again, I think a complete stocktaking analysis has to be made by the (Iraqi Human Rights) Minister to determine what the needs are in Iraq and we stand ready to help. There is no doubt (about that)." Tuzla, 22 November 2004 10. Forensic expert entering ICMP morgue containing bodies of Srebrenica victims 11. Man checking body bag 12. Tuzla morgue with body bags 13. Various shots of articles of clothing belonging to victims of Srebrenica being examined Srebrenica, 21 November 2004 14. Amin walking through Srebrenica victims' cemetery with relatives of Srebrenica victims; UPSOUND: Amin talking about mass graves in Iraq 15. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Srebrenica resident, No name available: "I know your situation. It must be terrible. We are compassionate." 16. Wide of graves 17. Amin praying at Srebrenica memorial STORYLINE: An Iraqi delegation visited Bosnia on Monday hoping to learn from the country's grim expertise - finding and identifying the remains of those buried in mass graves. The delegation, led by Iraqi Minister for Human Rights Bakhtiar Amin, toured laboratories of the Bosnia-based International Commission on Missing Persons, which the Iraqi officials hope can help determine the fate of hundreds of thousands who disappeared during Saddam Hussein's regime. Human rights organisations estimate that more than 300,000 people were killed during Saddam's 24-year rule, which ended when US-led forces toppled his regime in 2003. Amin said Saddam Hussein turned Iraq into "a land of mass graves". Until now, Europeans with expertise in exhumations have generally refused to help in Iraq because of their aversion to the death penalty - a legal punishment in Iraq that Saddam could well face when he goes on trial for crimes against humanity next year. So far Iraq has identified about 283 mass grave sites, but it lacks experts, institutions and a legal framework to deal with the problem of exhuming and identifying remains, according to Amin. He says Iraq has only 20 forensic pathologists and no DNA laboratory. Adding to the difficulties, some Iraqis have damaged sites by digging in the search for relatives' remains, raising concerns that valuable evidence has been lost. Using DNA analysis, the Sarajevo-based missing persons commission has identified the remains of thousands of people killed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. It's the only organisation in the world that uses DNA profiling to match blood samples from family members of missing people to bone samples found in mass graves. The organisation will give Iraqi authorities access to its forensic data management system, which tracks the process from the identification of mass Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...