Friends,
There is a new form of an old program on PBS on Tuesday Nights: Frontline World and This past Tuesday included a segment on the work Jim Fructerman and Benetech have been doing with helping turning 60 to 80 million pages into a usable archive that can explain what happened to an unnumbered group of "disappeared people" are called desaparecidos and executed persons the documentation of which had been missing until recently. And there are many people who would like it to disappear again along with the people working on it.
The interview with Jim is available at: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/guatemala704/interview/fruchterman.html
The full story is available at: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/guatemala704/
with the pictures that lead to each segment beginning
with
Guatemala's history of Violation of Human Rights. Jim explains why and how they were able to get the funding of a project that is reminiscent of the Archives of the Nazi documentation of the Holocaust [my comparison]..
I found it mind boggling but the work that is being done will enable millions of people to find out what happened to their loved ones and for the Guatemalan Government and Human Rights Commissions to find justice for the desaparecidos. Forgive me for an inadequate description of what you will find on these pages and the sections of the program itself. It is an amazing thing that Benetech is doing and will make an enormous difference to Guatemala and the world.
Amy
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