Laying the Dead to Rest: Meeting Forensic Anthropologist Mercedes Doretti

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Lucila Quieto, a member of the Argentinian organization "Children for the Identity, Justice, and Against the Silence of the Forgotten," looks at photographs of her missing father.

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Laying the Dead to Rest: Meeting Forensic Anthropologist Mercedes Doretti

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Links & Resources

Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF): [http://eaaf.typepad.com/]; The EAAF is the non-profit organization Mercedes Doretti co-founded when investigating cases of disappeared individuals from the Argentinian Dirty War. The organization now operates in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
The Desaparecidos Online Memorial: [http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/victimas/eng.html]; This website includes an extensive list of individuals who disappeared — called desaparecidos — during the Dirty War, including photos. Each person's photo links to a page with more information about them (Spanish only).
History of the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo: [http://www.womensvoicesforchange.org/2007/05/mothers_plaza_d.html]; The Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo are an Argentinean activist group that played a key role in motivating many of the reparations after the Dirty War.