Shining Path, a Maoist group established in the 1970s by Abimael Guzman, had by 1980 launched a revolutionary insurrection in the Peruvian countryside. When the movement's attempt to recruit Quechuan peasants to its cause ...

In Guatemala the Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAF) exhumes 1,000 bodies a year in an attempt to identify the remains of decades-old victims of army massacres. SACRED SOIL interviews relatives of the deceased and the ...