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The Disappeared
Challenges Entered:
1. Google Maps/ Earth*Incidences of disappearances 2. EPAF Information Sources: * EPAF's database of ante-mortem data for missing persons. This has documented and verifiable information on people who went missing * EPAF's spreadsheet of information on the missing.* Records (hardcopy files) on government activities during the time frame specified. There is a need for EPAF staff members to still comb through mountains of files to get data that is then used to collaborate information on the missing people. * Information from accredited sources (e.g. the Peru Registry of Victims etc.) with information on locations of places of alleged atrocities and where specific people are thought to have been disappeared.3. Visitors to the Website: *Information on places/ locations providing support to the families of people who were disappeared.*An interactive forum where people could provide information and stories of the missing (if possible).
What else have you done in this area of work?
EPAF applies forensic anthropology to the search for forcibly disappeared persons during the period of internal political conflict from 1982-2000. EPAF was founded in 1997, when a group of Peruvian professionals working for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia decided to apply their expertise in their own country. It is their final goal to restore the identity of the thousands of missing Peruvians that rest in hidden burial sites across the country.
EPAF has created software that captures data on the people who went missing during the period of the insurgency.
The group has carried out interviews and gone through files and files of information to get as comprehensive a picture of the disappearances as possible – a still ongoing task.