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Left: Eric Stover at the first exhumation of a mass grave near Chichicastenango, Guatemala in the early 1990s. It was believed to contain the remains of villagers who had been executed by the military. He is asking permission, from family members who believe the grave contains their loved ones, to remove the remains so they can be taken to a hospital to be examined. Right: Forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow shows a Guatemalan judge bullet fragments embedded in the skull of one of the first victims exhumed from unmarked graves near Chichicastenango. Photos by Photo by Pamela Blotner & Eric Stover.

A Legacy of Truth: Forty Years of Investigating the Forcibly Disappeared

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#Verified by the Human Rights Center: A Legacy of Truth: Forty Years of Investigating the Forcibly Disappeared, Faculty Director Eric Stover reflects on his career of working with families of the disappeared.

Left: Eric Stover at the first exhumation of a mass grave near Chichicastenango, Guatemala in the early 1990s. It was believed to contain the remains of villagers who had been executed by the military. He is asking permission, from family members who believe the grave contains their loved ones, to remove the remains so they can be taken to a hospital to be examined. Right: Forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow shows a Guatemalan judge bullet fragments embedded in the skull of one of the first victims exhumed from unmarked graves near Chichicastenango. Photos by Photo by Pamela Blotner & Eric Stover.
Left: Eric Stover at the first exhumation of a mass grave near Chichicastenango, Guatemala in the early 1990s. It was believed to contain the remains of villagers who had been executed by the military. He is asking permission, from family members who believe the grave contains their loved ones, to remove the remains so they can be taken to a hospital to be examined. Right: Forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow shows a Guatemalan judge bullet fragments embedded in the skull of one of the first victims exhumed from unmarked graves near Chichicastenango. Photos by Photo by Pamela Blotner & Eric Stover.