Cementerio General de Santiago
Vast historic burial ground with a mass grave whose DNA identification errors shook a nation.
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This guide to Santiago General Cemetery centers on Patio 29, a plain plot where forensic scientists tried to give more than a hundred of Chile's disappeared their names back, after bodies were dumped here anonymously in the final months of 1973. It follows the young anthropologists who, starting in 1991, matched dental records and old fractures against grieving families' memories, and the identifications they handed back by the late 1990s. You'll hear about Flor Lazo, who mourned her brother Rodolfo for more than a decade over a skeleton in the family grave. Walk among the cypress and stone walls of the patio itself.
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