Publication: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 1186 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Humphrey-Skomer, Jael
Article Excerpt
Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, by Victoria Sanford Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2003) Price: $22.05
Over 200,000 people were killed or disappeared, more than 1 million displaced and at least 626 villages destroyed during Guatemala's 36-year armed conflict according to the United Nations sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH). (1) Victoria Sanford worked for more than a decade in Guatemala--literally unearthing the country's horrific past as an anthropologist with the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG). From 1994--two years before the Peace Accords--onward, Sanford interviewed more than four hundred survivors of the conflict, from massacre escapees to massacre perpetrators, from soldiers to guerillas, from locals to officials. However, it is the voices of Guatemala's majority, impoverished, indigenous population that most permeate Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala. (2)
Perhaps the clearest lesson that arises from Sanford's work is that the breaking of silence and confrontation of past abuses is necessary on an individual, community, and nation-wide level if Guatemala is to move beyond its past. Sanford successfully argues not only that memory and truth are fundamental in...
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