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The Missing

On 8 April 2008, an International Committee on Missing Persons press release recorded that, since the Cyprus intercommunal violence began in the 1950s, 502 Turkish Cypriots and 1468 Greek Cypriots were reported as missing through official channels. 252 burial sites and 510 individuals had been exhumed. 136 persons have been identified and their remains returned to their families.

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