Congo CSI

Seneko is a part of the police team. He has worked for the Goma department for more than 15 years. He is learning how to classify the evidence that they are finding inside the mass graves Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Jose Pablo Baraybar, the executive director of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) takes a rest during the training near the mock open mass grave Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Chantalle is one of the first female forensic trainees in the country. She has been working for the Goma police for 15 years. In the picture she is learning how to clean the bodies in a mass grave under the supervision of Franco Mora, one of the EPAF trainers Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Baraybar takes notes during the training. In the background Franco Mora and Chatalle are discussing how to take pictures of the evidence Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Chantalle relaxes in her living room with four of her seven children and her mother in law, who has helped bring up the children since Chantalle's husband died two months ago Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Bani, a captain in the Goma police, learns how to classify the bodies in a simulation of exhumation. He puts the mock human remains in a plastic bag and adds information on the position and colour and a short description Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Aldo Bolaño of EPAF trains a group of Goma policemen. They are exhuming cloth dummies in a mass grave. and learning to measure the distances of the bodies inside a mass grave. This training forms part of a project funded by the democracy, human rights and labour committee of the US state department. Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Eric, from the army group, is learning how to draw a map of the mass grave. Franco Mora, the EPAF trainer, teaches him how to place the human bodies on the map. In the background the police team is detailing all the evidence with specific codes Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita

Wivine Emwendo, captain of the Congolese police in Goma, during a theoretical part of the forensic training. All of the police and military members of the team had to work hard to be selected as the new Congolese CSI Photograph: Ofelia de Pablo & Javier Zurita