The Man Who Gets Bones To Tell a Story
Lucy Ash hears from Fredy Peccerelli, Guatemala's top forensic anthropologist, on digging up the mass grave of massacre victims
Fredy Peccerelli, the director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, has exhumed many thousands of bodies over the last 18 years. Fredy played a key role in documenting thousands of extra-judicial killings that took place during the bloody years of Guatemala's civil war.
In the heady days of the early 70s, a group of more than 300 hippies drove from San Francisco across the US to eventually settle in Tennessee. The hippies bought a thousand acres of land and founded 'The Farm'. It was a self-governing, self-sufficient commune that grew to 1,500 members by 1980, and attracted thousands of curious visitors.
Filmmaker sisters Nadine Mundo and Rena Mundo Croshere were born there and produced a film about their their childhood.
Picture: Forensic anthropologist Fredy Peccerelli is lowered towards a mass grave.
Picture credit: Fundaci贸n de Antropolog铆a Forense de Guatemala (FAFG)
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