November 12, 2008, Washington, DC: A documentary film and photo exhibit depicting the exhumation of one of Peru’s largest mass graves is coming to Georgetown University starting Thursday (Nov. 13).

The documentary was produced by The Advocacy Project (AP) and follows the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) in their efforts at exhuming the graves at Putis this past May. AP Executive Director Iain Guest and AP Peace Fellow Ash Kosiewicz, a graduate student at Georgetown University, accompanied the team and provided footage for the documentary.

The photo exhibit, titled “If I Don’t Come Back…Look for Me in Putis,” is the visual testimony of Domingo Giribaldi, documenting EPAF’s trip to Ayacucho for the public display of the clothing found in the mass grave at Putis.

The largest of Peru’s mass graves, Putis marks one of the most brutal incidents in the country’s 20-year internal conflict. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that in December 1984, 123 men, women and children from the communities of Cayramayo, Vizcatampata, Orccohuasi and Putis were executed by units of the Peruvian Army and buried at Putis.

The documentary will be screened starting at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 in the 7th Floor Executive Conference Room at Georgetown’s Inter-Cultural Center. Jose Pablo Baraybar, the director of EPAF, will speak at the event, with a discussion to follow the film.

The photo exhibit will be on display at the Inter-Cultural Center Galleria at Georgetown from Nov. 13 until Nov. 15. It can be viewed from 7 a.m. to midnight, and admission is free

The exhibit was made possible through the efforts of EPAF, AP, Creative Learning and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.