The Witness series on Al Jazeera features a film by Paula Monaco Felipe.
A 40-year search for his disappeared father leads an Indigenous weaver into a world of forensic investigation.
Carlos Poyon was just three years old when his father was kidnapped. Forty years later, the traditional weaver studies anthropology, still hoping to find his father.
Carlos also works for the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala. He records survivors’ testimonies, takes DNA samples of those seeking missing loved ones and joins excavations to recover the remains of the disappeared.
You can watch this moving film here, Guatemala’s past unearthed: The search for the disappeared.
The violence that was carried out is unimaginable, as is the continuing violence of forced disappearances. The courage of the survivors, along with the work of FAFG, is a testament to the continuing search for truth.
You can find out more about the work of FAFG here, About FAFG, and how you can help their work, here, Friends of FAFG.
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