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FAFG

Definition

Fundacion de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala. National forensic anthropology organisation established 1992, carrying out exhumations related to Guatemala's internal armed conflict (1960-1996); one of the first national forensic bodies built on the EAAF model.

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