Guatemala: Forensic anthropologist Fredy Peccerelli targetted for investigating killings
“Your days are running out f******g REVOLUTIONARY. Today we have your sister under surveillance. She is wearing black trousers and a white shirt. It is going to be easier than we thought”. This is typical of the threats received by Fredy Peccerelli Director of FAFG the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation which carries out exhumations of mass graves to return the victims to their families and to find evidence which will bring the perpetrators to justice.
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Posted 16/11/2007 Fredy Peccerelli is Director of FAFG the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation which carries out exhumations of mass graves to return the victims to their families and to find evidence which will bring the perpetrators to justice. Members of the FAFG repeatedly receive death threats.The killers have targeted Fredy, his colleagues and members of his family. They threatened to rape his sister and torture her husband to death. On 24 May 2007 Ana Dolores Arriola Carrillo and Miguel Angel Ruiz Corado of the FAFG were returning from the bank in Guatemala city when their car was intercepted by armed men on unregistered motorcycles. The men ordered the staff members to give them the money and the weapon carried by the driver, although both staff members were unarmed. The two staff members were hit in the face and threatened.
Whether working for the rights of peasants, religious activists, LGBT people, indigenous people or trade unionists promoting human rights is enough to put your life in danger in Guatemala.
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