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[Crime]
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7/22/2005
7:05:11 pm EDT
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The Bone Hunters
Author: PBS Source: PBS
Title: THE BONE HUNTERS
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: In Guatemala, a government official this week apologized for the atrocities of that country's long civil war from the 1960s to the '90s. The apology was ordered by the Inter-American Human Rights Court, which has also ruled that the government of Guatemala should pay nearly $8 million to the surviving relatives of those killed.
SAUL GONZALEZ (reports): On a forested hillside in the highlands of western Guatemala, the villagers of Chunimachicaj gather to grieve and pray, asking God to bless the work about to begin here. That work is a dig.
Forensic anthropologists, with the help of villagers, are searching for evidence of a massacre -- the remains of people killed by government soldiers here over two decades ago, when this country was in the grip of a vicious civil war.
GONZALEZ: When the war raged, the worst violence occurred in Guatemala's western highlands, home to the country's large Mayan Indian population. It was here, Peccerelli says, that the government's conflict with leftist guerrillas turned into a merciless war against the country's indigenous people, like the villagers of Chunimachicaj.
Dr. FREDY PECCERELLI (Founder and Director, Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation): It falls within a strategy of genocide. The idea wasn't only to wipe out the possibility of communism. It was also to wipe out certain groups of people. Those groups of people were the indigenous Mayan of Guatemala. Anyone who the army felt was a threat was to be wiped out. That included the children. It included women. It included the elderly. It basically included everyone.
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Michael Welch (Audubon, Florida) - Email Me
...but necessary. All of us must seek out and uncover the truth (whatever the cost--because to not, is more costly) . Through truth we enable justice. Through truth we build on firm foundations. Through truth we banish fear. Through truth we move forward, knit relations and achieve the substance of our dreams...our garment of glory.
Their tears *are* our tears.
(...in both senses: to pour out [of a vessel] and to rip apart [of a cloak])
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