CID confirms identities of eight July uprising martyrs through DNA profiling
This news article reports that Bangladesh's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) confirmed the identities of eight victims of the July 2024 uprising through DNA profiling and forensic examination. The bodies were exhumed from Rayerbazar Graveyard in Dhaka, where unidentified victims had been buried following the uprising, as part of a government-led initiative. The article provides the full names, family details, home districts, and dates of death for all eight identified individuals, and notes that 114 bodies total were exhumed between December 7-27, 2025. The identification process was conducted with international forensic experts and UN Human Rights Commission assistance, following the Minnesota Protocol, with ongoing work to identify the remaining unidentified victims.
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Dhaka Tribune. "CID confirms identities of eight July uprising martyrs through DNA profiling." Dhaka Tribune, 2026. July Archive. https://julyarchive.org/sources/cid-confirms-identities-of-eight-july-uprising-martyrs-throu-a627960d.
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