February 18, 2009, London, UK: The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) will screen a documentary about their work exhuming mass graves in Putis, Peru tonight at the Human Rights Action Centre in London.
The film, titled “If I Don’t Come Back, Look for Me in Putis,” was produced with help from The Advocacy Project (AP). Much of the footage in the film was shot by Ash Kosiewicz, a Peace Fellow who volunteered with EPAF in 2008.
EPAF, an AP partner, exhumed the mass grave at Putis in May 2008. The largest of Peru’s mass graves, Putis marks one of the most brutal incidents in the country’s 20-year internal conflict. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that in December 1984, 123 men, women and children from the communities of Cayramayo, Vizcatampata, Orccohuasi and Putis were executed by units of the Peruvian Army and buried at Putis.
The screening of “”If I Don’t Come Back, Look for Me in Putis” also kicks off a photography exhibition of the same name. The exhibit, which runs through February 20 at the Centre, is the visual testimony of Domingo Giribaldi, who documented EPAF’s trip to Ayacucho for the public display of the clothing found in the mass grave.
The event is being co-sponsored by the Peru Support Group and Amnesty International UK.
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Posted Feb 18th, 2009