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Special Report Transcript Episode 60, Section 3, Time 19:35

As the exhumation gets underway the photographs and post mortem report provide vital clues in the search for Ninela’s grave. State pathologist doctor Sagran …Aha and the TRC investigators know that the skeletal remains they’re looking for will have no left arm, no hands, a shattered skull, badly torn clothes. The digging goes on for hours as one unmarked grave after the other is opened and inspected. The Ninela family watch and wait patiently. After inspecting nine graves there’s still no sign of the young activist’s remains. TRC investigators are ready to call it a day. Then they decide to open a tenth grave. // …our man I think, are we going to take this thing out intact? // Finally, after six hours of digging and more than eight years of waiting Blessing Ninela’s relatives are confident that they finally uncovered the truth. Like pieces of a puzzle found in this anonymous grave they immediately recognize bits of Ninela’s hair, his soiled shirt, his torn sheepskin jacket. As expected the pathologist finds parts of a skull, a few ribs, bones, no hands. Suddenly everyone is quiet. There’s an eerie silence around the graveside; a sign of respect for the dead.

Notes: Blessing Ninela’s remains and clothes removed from grave

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