Guatemala's police state archive
In 2005, a police archive containing over seventy-five million pages of evidence of state-sanctioned terror, was found in Guatemala. Left to rot by the National Police following the civil war that lasted for more than thirty years, the documents are being painstakingly sifted through and properly organised in the hope that some sense can be made of what happened. The archive also goes a long way to discrediting the continued efforts by the state to deny charges of genocide and counterinsurgency during the war.
Well worth a listen. Particularly the way the speaker discusses the need to apply archival appraisal and methods, not just look for a smoking gun.
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