Guatemala’s past unearthed: The search for the disappeared

A 40-year seek for his disappeared father leads an Indigenous weaver right into a world of forensic investigation.

Carlos Poyon was simply three years outdated when his father was kidnapped. Forty years later, the normal weaver research anthropology, nonetheless hoping to search out his father.

Carlos additionally works for the Forensic Anthropology Basis of Guatemala. He data survivors’ testimonies, takes DNA samples of these searching for lacking family members and joins excavations to recuperate the stays of the disappeared.

As much as 45,000 folks disappeared throughout Guatemala’s 36-year inside battle. Greater than 80 % of them have been Indigenous Mayan civilians.

Carlos and 1000's of survivors nonetheless search fact and justice 25 years after the 1996 peace accords.

A movie by Paula Monaco Felipe.

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