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Guatemala's civil war records (8:00)


Listen September 25, 2007 permalink

More than 200,000 people died and nearly 50,000 went missing during Guatemala's 30-year civil war. The country's brutal dictatorship kept records of it all. But no one knew that until the archives were accidentally recovered just two years ago. Now a massive project is underway to digitize millions of documents from Guatemala's darkest days. The World's Clark Boyd reports


Guatemalan National Police Archive Project

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