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Re: Vietnam Uses DNA to Identify MIAs & KIAs
From: POW-MIA InterNetwork
Date: July 09, 2003
"Gene technology used to identify Vietnam's missing soliders
Vietnam says it has used gene technology to identify the remains of soldiers missing in action during the war with the United States and its intervention in Cambodia.
The Biotechnology Institute in the capital, Hanoi, says the remains of three soldiers were identified after DNA samples taken from tooth and bone fragments were compared with samples from relatives.
An institute spokesman says it has proposed the government set up a National Gene Examination and Identification Centre to identify remains of an estimated 10,000 MIAs in the next 10 years.
As many as 300,000 of Vietnam's estimated 3 million killed during the war with the US, which ended in 1973, are listed as missing.
More than 10,000 others were killed or went missing during Vietnam's incursion into Cambodia to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime between 1978 and 1989.
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