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Fredy Peccerelli (b. 1971), a forensic anthropologist, is the Director and one of the founding members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation is an autonomous, non-profit, technical and scientific non-governmental organisation.Its aim is to strengthen the administration of justice and respect for human rights by investigating, documenting, and raising awareness about past instances of human rights violations, particularly unresolved...
 in Guatemala City
Guatemala City

Guatemala City is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the capital city of the local Guatemala and the largest city in Central America....
, a nongovernmental organization that exhumes mass grave
Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple, usually unidentified human corpses. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave....
s of victims of Guatemala's civil war
Guatemalan Civil War

The Guatemalan Civil War, the longest civil war in Latin American history, ran from 1960 to 1996, and had a profound impact on Guatemala....
. Peccerelli, along with members of his immediate family, has been the subject of repeated death threats as a result of his work.

In 1999, he was chosen by CNN
CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
 and Time Magazine as one of the "50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium."

In addition to his ongoing work in Guatemala, Peccerelli has conducted exhumations of mass graves in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
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Fredy Peccerelli (b. 1971), a forensic anthropologist, is the Director and one of the founding members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation is an autonomous, non-profit, technical and scientific non-governmental organisation.Its aim is to strengthen the administration of justice and respect for human rights by investigating, documenting, and raising awareness about past instances of human rights violations, particularly unresolved...
 in Guatemala City
Guatemala City

Guatemala City is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the capital city of the local Guatemala and the largest city in Central America....
, a nongovernmental organization that exhumes mass grave
Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple, usually unidentified human corpses. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave....
s of victims of Guatemala's civil war
Guatemalan Civil War

The Guatemalan Civil War, the longest civil war in Latin American history, ran from 1960 to 1996, and had a profound impact on Guatemala....
. Peccerelli, along with members of his immediate family, has been the subject of repeated death threats as a result of his work.

In 1999, he was chosen by CNN
CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
 and Time Magazine as one of the "50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium."

In addition to his ongoing work in Guatemala, Peccerelli has conducted exhumations of mass graves in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
. He testified about this work at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a body of the United Nations establis...
 on 13 March, 2007.

See also

  • Guatemalan Civil War
    Guatemalan Civil War

    The Guatemalan Civil War, the longest civil war in Latin American history, ran from 1960 to 1996, and had a profound impact on Guatemala....
  • FAFG
  • Forensic anthropology
    Forensic anthropology

    'Forensic anthropology' is the application of the science of physical anthropology and human osteology in a legal setting, most often in criminal cases where the victim's remains are more or less skeletonized....


External links

  • , summary of radio interview by Michele Kelemen on National Public Radio
    National Public Radio

    National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national Radio syndication to 797 public radio List of NPR stations in the United States....
     (full audio interview available). Original air date 2006-06-15, accessed 2008-06-16.
  • , accessed 2008-06-16
  • interview in the New York Times by Claudia Dreifus on 2004-03-30, accessed 2008-06-16