摘要：In the present study, we reviewed exhumation processes in 14 Latin American countries where collective
massacres have been perpetrated and people have been detained or disappeared as a result of state policies
or social violence. In most of these countries, exhumations were instigated through the efforts of organized
family groups rather than the state, and implemented by forensic anthropology teams, only rarely (as in
Guatemala) with psychosocial support for victims. In general terms, there have been no significant reparation
processes. We reviewed the different procedures carried out by the three parties who take coordinated
action in an exhumation process—forensic anthropology, legal, and psychosocial—and the controversies that
have arisen as a result of these processes. Lessons have been learned from this analysis, and we propose
strategies for developing standards of good practice for exhumation of victims of political violence.
