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[:en]2 September 2013: Following the derailment of a train that happened in Lac Mégantic, in the Canadian province of Quebec, on July 6th, 2013, the Quebec authorities have reached out to the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) for assistance in their disaster victim identification efforts. The Lac-Mégantic accident was the fourth deadliest rail accident in Canadian history that took more than 40 lives.
Although most of the Lac-Mégantic victims’ bodies were heavily damaged by an explosion and fire associated with the accident, several of them have been identified by the Quebec coroner’s office and the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale (LSJML). The LSJML has been able to use DNA identification techniques on less damaged cases, but a few cases were too heavily burned to achieve positive identification. Because of ICMP’s extensive experience with DNA testing of highly degraded skeletal remains, ICMP will attempt to extract DNA profiles, in line with the Quebec authorities’ desire to use all available means for identification.
“As part of our mandate to assist governments in locating and identifying missing persons as a result of armed conflicts, human rights violations and disasters, the ICMP is glad to do whatever we can to assist in this tragic event. The bone samples in question are severely burned, but it may be that our highly optimized methods for DNA extraction can help”, said Kathryne Bomberger , ICMP’s Director-General.
Since November 2001, ICMP has led the way in using DNA as a first step in the identification of large numbers of missing persons. ICMP has developed a database of over 96,700 relatives and has analyzed more than 59,200 bone samples from around the globe. By matching DNA from blood and bone samples, ICMP has been able to identify over 18,500 people worldwide.
ICMP assisted the governments in the Western Balkans in accounting for over 70% of the estimated 40,000 persons that went missing as a consequence of armed conflict, abuses of human rights and other atrocities in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. ICMP has offices in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.[:bs]Nakon što je 6. jula 2013. godine voz skrenuo s kolosijeka u Lac-Méganticu, u kanadskoj provinciji Quebec, vlasti Quebeca obratile su se Međunarodnoj komisiji za nestale osobe (ICMP) tražeći pomoć u njihovim nastojanjima da identifikuju žrtve nesreće. Nesreća u Lac-Méganticu je četvrta najsmrtonosnija željeznička nesreća u kanadskoj historiji koja je odnijela više od 40 života.
Gotovo većina tijela žrtava iz Lac-Mégantica je bilo teško oštećena od eksplozije i požara povezanog s nesrećom, nekoliko je identificirano od strane mrtvozvornika iz Qubeca i Laboratorije za forenzičku nauku i sudsku medicine (LSJML). LSJML je bio u stanju da koristi tehnike DNK identifikacije na manje oštećenim slučajevima, ali nekoliko slučajeva je bilo teško spaljeno da bi se postigla pozitivna identifikacija. Zbog ICMP-ovog velikog iskustva s DNK testiranjem visoko oštećenih skeletnih ostataka, ICMP će pokušati izolovati DNK profile, u skladu s željom vlasti Quebeca da koristi sva raspoloživa sredstva za identifikaciju.
“Kao dio našeg mandata da pomažemo vladama u traženju i identifikaciji osoba nestalih usljed oružanih sukoba, kršenja ljudskih prava i katastrofa, nama je drago da učinimo sve što možemo kako bi pomogli u ovom tragičnom događaju. Koštani uzorci su jako spaljeni, ali možda naše visoko optimizirane metode za izolovanje DNK mogu pomoći,” rekla je Kathryne Bomberger, generalna direktorica ICMP-a.
Od novembra 2001, ICMP je predvodio upotrebu DNK kao prvog koraka u identifikaciji velikog broja nestalih osoba. ICMP je kreirao bazu podataka više od 96,700 referentnih uzoraka i analizirao više od 52,900 koštanih uzoraka iz različitih dijelova svijeta. Poređenjem DNK profila iz krvi i kosti, ICMP je identificirao više od 18,500 ljudi širom svijeta.
ICMP je pomogao vladama Zapadnog Balkana u identifikaciji više od 70 posto od procjenjenih 40,000 osoba nestalih posljedicom oružanog sukoba, kršenja ljudskih prava i drugih zločina na području bivše Jugoslavije 90-ih godina. ICMP ima urede u Bosni i Hercegovini, Kosovu, Iraku i Libiji.
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