The Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice would like to make you aware of the following event of interest tomorrow in the Boston area:

What Happened at Dos Erres?

A discussion of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala in December 1982,
the lives of a father and son who survived the massacre,
and the remarkable events that re-united them 30-years later.

Presented by

Harvard Kennedy School
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

When:  Wednesday, May 30
            6:30pm-8:30pm

Where: Wiener Auditorium
            Taubman Building, Ground Floor
            Harvard Kennedy School of Government
            Cambridge, MA (map)

Featuring:

• Óscar Ramírez, a 32-year-old Guatemalan living in Framingham, MA, who recently learned he is a survivor of the Dos Erres massacre, having been kidnapped as a 3-year-old boy by one of the Guatemalan soldiers who murdered his mother and eight siblings. Last August, it was established by a DNA test that Óscar is the biological son of Tranquilino Castañeda Valenzuela, a resident of Dos Erres who was away the day of the massacre working in the fields of a relative.
• Tranquilino Castañeda Valenzuela, Óscar's father, whom until last August believed his wife and all nine of his children were murdered by the Guatemalan army in the massacre.
• Fredy Peccerelli, Director of the Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG).
• Aura Elena Farfán, Director of Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala (FAMDEGUA).
• Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst with the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute and library based at The George Washington University.
• Scott Greathead, Lawyer and human rights advocate.

Co-Sponsors:

• PHR (Physicians for Human Rights)
• WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America)
• FAFG (Fundacion de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala)
• FAMDEGUA (Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala)
• CJA (The Center For Justice and Accountability)
• NSA (National Security Archive)

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