Fredy Peccerelli
Fredy Peccerelli (born 1971),[1] a forensic anthropologist, is the Director and one of the founding members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation in Guatemala City, a nongovernmental organization that exhumes mass graves of victims of Guatemala's civil war. Peccerelli, along with members of his immediate family, has been the subject of repeated death threats as a result of his work.[2]
In 1999, he was chosen by CNN and Time Magazine as one of the "50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium."[3]
In addition to his ongoing work in Guatemala, Peccerelli has conducted exhumations of mass graves in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. He testified about this work at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on 13 March 2007.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Black, Richard (2004-02-15). "Guatemala rights scientist honoured". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- ↑ Human rights alert from Amnesty International issued 30 May 2007.
- ↑ "Fredy Peccerelli, Executive Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation Speaks at AAAS". Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ↑ Transcript for case number IT-05-88-T, The Prosecutor versus Vujadin Popovic et al., see especially parts marked pages 8749-8753
External links
- Fredy Peccerelli at TED
- A Guatemalan Returns to Help Find the 'Disappeared', summary of radio interview by Michele Kelemen on National Public Radio (full audio interview available). Original air date 2006-06-15, accessed 2008-06-16.
- Brief biography from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed 2008-06-16
- A Conversation with: Fredy Peccerelli; 'The Bones Tell the Story': Revealing History's Darker Days interview in the New York Times by Claudia Dreifus on 2004-03-30, accessed 2008-06-16