[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT-Sort of Benetech in Guatamala

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:50:17 -0700 (PDT)

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing the information and the site.

G.Cindy

--- On Fri, 5/30/08, Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 11:25 AM
> 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 
> omsm


      
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