Witnesses from the Grave: The Work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, Stover and British deminer Rae McGrath conducted the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other post-war countries. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, he served on several medicolegal investigations as an "Expert on Mission" to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. He conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995. His books include "Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions" (with Elena O. Nightingale); "Witness from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell" (with Christopher Joyce); "The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar" (with Gilles Peress); and "A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo" (with Fred Abrahams and Gilles Peress). Stover is now conducting a study of witnesses who have testified before the ICTY. He will introduce the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) photo exhibit on display at Bolívar House and discuss his work with EAAF.