Kuwaiti Government €200,000 Donation
Release Date: Jul 02, 2014
Press Release
(Nicosia, 2 July 2014) – The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) would like to thank the Government of Kuwait for its generous donation of 200,000 EUR.
This donation will contribute to the ongoing implementation of the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of Missing Persons in Cyprus, in particular, to fund the extraction and analysis of DNA.
The CMP is striving to locate, exhume, identify and return the remains of as many individuals as possible in order to bring an end to the painful uncertainty which has affected so many families for so many years.
To date, the remains of nearly 1100 individuals have been exhumed while 521 have been identified and returned to their families.