During exuberant celebrations known as famadihana ("bone-turnings"), certain tribes regularly disinter and rewrap their dead kin in new burial shrouds, essentially to keep them content in the ...
The U.S. Army has started its annual effort to disinter the remains of students buried on post. This month, the Office of Army Cemeteries will work to recover 11 remains from six tribes in a ...
The Winnebago have sued to force the military to comply with a longstanding law requiring the U.S. government to return Native human remains to their tribes.
KOZHIKODE: The Council of Fatwa and Research of Darul Huda Islamic University has clarified that there is no need to exhume different body parts of the victims of Chooralmala and Mundakkai ...
Koplow said if Hebrew Free Burial Association learns of a Jew who was buried in potter’s field, it will ask to disinter and then rebury the body “with a Jewish burial in our cemetery.” ...