Unearthing The Truth: Exhuming a Decade of Terror in Guatemala

Republication - Originally published


“Even if 30 forensic teams worked for 30 years, that still wouldn’t be enough resources or time to exhume all the mass graves in Guatemala.” (Fernando Moscoso)

Thirty years after the exhumation process began in Guatemala, Rights Action is pleased to re-publish this report written by Grahame Russell, with Sarah Key & Ann Butwell, and published in 1996 by EPICA (Ecumenical Program on Central America & Caribbean) and CHRLA (Center for Human Rights Legal Action). Unearthing The Truth covers the first years of work of the FAFG (Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala), then called the EAFG (Forensic Anthropology Team of Guatemala) – work that is on-going today.

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