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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.