Researchers processing bone samples from an unidentified soldier missing in action collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam, for DNA testing at the Center for DNA Identification at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Damien Cave, the Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, takes us to a cemetery in northern Vietnam, where scientists are using innovative DNA analysis techniques to match unidentified Vietnamese soldiers with their living relatives before U.S.A.I.D. cuts defund the program.