The Wire

Investigators are searching for the thousands of people killed in Guatemala’s 36 year long civil war. Credible estimates suggest the conflict has left 200,000 people dead. Those lives are now slowly being accounted for by anthropologist Freddy Peccerelli, the executive director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation. Since the end of the war in 1996 between leftist guerillas, the military and para-military groups, the Foundation has exhumed thousands of bodies and brought much needed closure to the victim’s families. The organisation has recently received an award from the American Association of the Advancement of Science for it’s contribution to human rights.