Words from the Daughters of the Mayab
Maya | Guatemala
15 min
Scorched Earth Flowers
Erwin Melgar, an experienced anthropologist from the Centre for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Sciences (CAFCA) in Guatemala, has the difficult job of exhuming the remains of a massacre in Ixcán, Quiché.
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2023
Synopsis
Erwin Melgar, an experienced anthropologist from the Centre for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Sciences (CAFCA) in Guatemala, has a difficult job: exhuming the remains of a massacre in Ixcán, Quiché, with 250 bodies so burned all genetic material is lost. From this case, he begins an inner journey through the barbarism of the armed conflict in Guatemala, looking for answers from other tragic events, specifically the shooting of 2,238 Republicans in Paterna, Valencia.
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2023
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