The Palestinian Authority said last week that it would not object to exhuming the body from its tomb if Arafat's family approves.

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Even though it would be irrelevant to the estate case, Rebecca Stark Smith now hopes to get a court order exhuming bodies for DNA testing.

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Since the executed men were buried in a communal grave, any attempt to identify the body of Ken Saro-Wiwa will necessitate exhuming all nine bodies.

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In the past few months investigators have once more been at the gruesome task of exhuming bodies in their search for evidence needed to prepare prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

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