WARNING: This story includes distressing details.
A Guatemala-based forensic anthropology organization is extending its hand to Indigenous Peoples looking to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools in Canada.
Fredy Peccerelli, a founding member of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, has been working for nearly 30 years to bring home bodies of the “disappeared”— Maya civilians who were killed during the 36-year civil war in Guatemala that ended in 1996.
He said he’s seen first-hand how the pain caused by the loss of family members and their missing remains can rupture through generations and communities.
“It doesn’t go away,” he
