, Jan. 5 -- Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq-e-Azam on Monday said identities of eight July uprising martyrs who were buried at Rayerbazar Graveyard as unidentified have been confirmed through DNA test.

Both local and international experts were involved in the highly sensitive process and it was done maintaining international standards, the adviser said at a programme on identification of unidentified martyrs of July uprising organised by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Rayerbazar graveyard in the capital.

He said a total of 114 bodies of men and women killed at different places in Dhaka during the July uprising were buried as unidentified at Rayerbazar graveyard.

Following exhumation, autopsy and DNA sample collect...