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Discovering Dominga, a film by Patricia Flynn with Mary Jo McConahay

Living in Iowa, Denese Becker was haunted by memories of her Mayan childhood. A quest for her lost identity in Guatemala turns into a searing journey of political awakening that reveals a genocidal crime and the still-unmet cry for justice from the survivors. | Read the synopsis »

Premiered: July 8, 2003 at 10PM EST | Check for Rebroadcasts

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Dominga Update:

"The genocide trial against the generals, in which Denese decides to testify in the film, is moving forward rapidly. The special prosecutor has now finished interviewing
all 102 witnesses... "

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EVIDENCE IN THE REMAINS

Follow along with our interactive feature, as forensic scientists investigate the past by stitching it together, piece by piece. What can we learn from the bones and dust? See how anthropologists and archaeologists assemble the stories of the dead.  » 

WITNESS TO MASSACRE

Read three on-the-ground accounts of genocide in Guatemala. Hear from human rights lawyer Frank La Rue and U.N. coordinator Marcie Mersky on the struggle to bring the perpetrators to justice. Read a first-person account from survivor Jesús Tecú Osorio of the Rio Negro massacres.  » 

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