In the face of  death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent the past  two decades patiently exhuming  the victims of Guatemala’s civil war. Now  his work might bring justice for their murders, writes Maggie Jones

The chief judge ejected one of Saddam Hussein’s defence lawyers for “insulting the court” in Baghdad today during the former Iraqi leader’s trial for genocide in a military offensive against Kurds in the 1980s.