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Guatemala-based group extends hand on First Nations’ residential school searches

OTTAWA – A Guatemala-based forensic anthropology organization is extending its hand to Indigenous Peoples in Canada looking to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools.

Fredy Peccerelli, a founding member of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, has been working for years to bring home bodies of the “disappeared” — those who died in the 36-year civil war in Guatemala.

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