year waiting period and claim inheritances and benefits. The DVI centre, which now has enough funding for the rest of the year after donor governments were lambasted for a cash shortfall last month, is entering its toughest phase. After relying mainly on dental records and fingerprints, the teams face a bigger challenge in analysing DNA samples taken from bodies exposed to days of salt water and tropical heat. They have sent bone and tissue samples to Sarajevo-based war crimes investigators, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), after prior testing by other laboratories failed. But some of the dead may never be known. "It's a distinct possibility that a very small number of bodies may never be identified and with the vast number of bodies that were dealing with here, that has to be recognised as a reality," he said. --More 1423 Local Time 1123 GMT
