Fredy Peccerelli is a forensic anthropologist and director of the Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), which he helped found in 1997. FAFG is a not for profit organization that carries out forensic examinations into killings during the Guatemalan civil war and genocide in the second half of the 20th century. FAFG has over 2,000 cases under investigation and works nationally with families and communities requesting forensic investigations to establish the place of mass graves, family member identification, and as a part of criminal investigations.

Peccerelli and his team have recovered thousands of sets of victims’ remains and reunited them with their families. They have discovered hundreds of mass graves that offer proof that a genocide occurred and have provided forensic evidence to the Guatemalan Justice System and Public Prosecutor’s Office in 1,400 anthropological experts’ reports related to legal cases of the conflict.

Through his work at FAFG, Peccerelli is motivated to obtain justice for the victims and their families, and to shine light on some of the least-studied, most obscured mass atrocities in recent history.