In 1996 Guatemala signed a peace accord that ended a 36 year war between government forces and militias. Over that time some 250,000 people "disappeared". Few of those people were located until the Forensic Anthropological Foundation began their work.
After performing a moment of blessing, we entered the building. I assumed the boxes in the hallway were filled with the records of the disappeared. This was enough to give me a chill. Only later did I learn that they were filled with the remains of some 4000 people who have been found but not re connected with relatives. I still struggle to reconcile the juxtaposition of such a common container holding such a sacred content.
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