Sometimes you hate to be right:

A BELGIAN World War I expert has described as a ”nightmare” the methods used by an English archaeological firm to exhume the bodies of about 300 Australian and British soldiers left for 90 years in a mass grave in France.

This follows my post back in May when I asked if it was morally correct to exhume these men after so many years. At the time I noted that it was technically possible, but perhaps morally hazy. Now it seems its a technical issue as well:

Johan Vandewalle’s chief anxiety is that the methods used to excavate – going deep into the centre of graves instead of working meticulously layer by layer – means there is no guarantee that every set of remains can be attributed to one individual and that they may be jumbled.

I take no satisfaction in being correct about this. We should never have desecrated these mass graves.

The Age- Fears for bodies of the fallen Fromelles diggers

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