Fredy Peccerelli

Fredy Peccerelli (b. 1971) [cite news |first=Richard|last= Black|authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Guatemala rights scientist honoured|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/3489743.stm|work= |publisher= BBC News|date= 2004-02-15|accessdate=2008-06-17 ] , 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. [ [http://stoptorture.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR34/016/2007/en/dom-AMR340162007en.html Human rights alert] from Amnesty International issued 30 May, 2007.]

In 1999, he was chosen by CNN and Time Magazine as one of the "50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium." [cite web
title = Fredy Peccerelli, Executive Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation Speaks at AAAS
url=http://shr.aaas.org/news/050204_peccerelli.htm
accessdate = 2008-06-16 ]

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. [ [http://www.un.org/icty/transe88/070313ED.htm Transcript for case number IT-05-88-T, The Prosecutor versus Vujadin Popovic et al.] , see especially parts marked pages 8749-8753]

References

ee also

* Guatemalan Civil War
* FAFG
* Forensic anthropology

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488803 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.
* [http://shr.aaas.org/news/050204_peccerelli.htm Brief biography from the American Association for the Advancement of Science] , accessed 2008-06-16
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E3DD1F30F933A05750C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon= 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