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

• Guatemalan Civil War
• FAFG
• Forensic anthropology

References

1. Black, Richard (2004-02-15). "Guatemala rights scientist honoured". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
2. Human rights alert from Amnesty International issued 30 May 2007.
3. "Fredy Peccerelli, Executive Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation Speaks at AAAS". Retrieved 2008-06-16.
4. 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