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Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

2003-06-08 · 60 min · ★ 9.0

Documentary · History · War · TV Movie

Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than 200 people were killed in the small village of Rio Negro, after opposing the construction of a dam, sponsored by World Bank. She then tries to unveil the truth.

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