Forensic anthropologist says new approach needed to investigate – and stop – femicide
Forensic anthropologist says new approach needed to investigate – and stop – femicide
BROOKE BINKOWSKI
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Jun. 09, 2015 5:27PM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, Jun. 09, 2015 7:23PM EDT
This story is part of an ongoing Globe and Mail investigation into the hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.
Luis Fondebrider lives among the dead and the vanished. A forensic anthropologist, he grew up in Argentina under the shadow of military rule and its Dirty War, in which thousands of people were killed during state-sponsored violence.
Victims, called desaparecidos or the disappeared ones, were buried in mass graves, or their bodies thrown into the ocean to wash up on the beaches of Argentina and Uruguay.
Today, Mr. Fondebrider works with the group he founded more than three decades ago: the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, also known by its Spanish acronym, EAAF. The non-governmental organization is a team of about 60 people who apply a multidisciplinary forensic method to aid with finding and identifying bodies – some long dead.
The scientific approaches Mr. Fondebrider pioneered have now been used in post-conflict zones around the world, such as Bosnia, Libya and Angola. In recent years, he and his team have applied them to another type of massacre: feminicidio or femicide, the targeted murder of women specifically because they are female, which has reached epidemic levels in places like Mexico’s notorious city of Ciudad Juarez and among aboriginal women in Canada.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/forensic-anthropologist-says-femicide-rooted-in-the-condition-of-women/article24880220/
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