Frontline Airs Story on Guatemala National Police Archive Project
May 27, 2008, Palo Alto, CA — The PBS television series Frontline/World aired an investigative report
on the Guatemala National Police Archive project which
includes interviews with team members from Benetech's Martus and Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).
Martus and HRDAG provide technology to collect, organize, secure and back up data collected from the archive which includes an estimated 80 million records. The largest
known human rights archive in the Americas, the recovered police records could provide critical information about the estimated 200,000 people dead or missing during
Guatemala's 36-year civil war and help bring perpetrators to justice.
The archive segment aired on the East Coast on May 27th and will air in the San Francisco Bay area on KQED Channel 9 on Tuesday, June 10th at 9:00 PM PST.
Benetech HRDAG develops database software, data collection strategies, and
statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Our
technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international
criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations
around the world. Our analysis identifies the trends and patterns
which is the evidence of crimes of policy.
The incorporation of HRDAG into Benetech brings
together HRDAG's considerable field experience with Benetech's software
engineering expertise. Together, we will build tools and projects that help human rights
workers do their jobs better.
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