MIAMI HERALD SPECIAL/ Perhaps 200,000 people were killed during Guatemala's 36-year-old civil war. At least 45,000 people "disappeared" - abducted, killed and bodies never recovered. Now anthropologists are are sifting thru the mud of a mass grave to find skulls, femurs and ribs for signs of violence. The bones were dumped in Guatemala City during the height of the civil war. "These people would be picked up, questioned and tortured. And their families couldn't go claim the bodies because they feared for their own lives,'' said Fredy Peccerelli, forensics chief. "It's not just here. There are cemeteries around the country'' with the bodies of the disappeared." (Foto: mass grave site)
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