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• Achí Women’s case ends in 30-year prison sentences

  By kevodell on January 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Quorum put out a short briefing on the Achí Women case, its background and why it’s important. Errors in translation are mine. The internal armed conflict savagely hit Guatemala for 36 years, especially women who, in many cases, were considered… Read More ›

• Guatemala Sentences Former Fighters to 30 Years in Prison for Rape

  By kevodell on January 29, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Oscar Lopez and Jody García write, in the New York Times, about the Achi Women Case and the sentences handed down within the context of a corrupt judiciary and the likelihood of real justice being denied as time moves on…. Read More ›

• Achi Women – Remedial Measures and UN Statement

  By kevodell on January 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Impunity Watch Guatemala presented the above infographic to outline the Remedial Measures awarded to the Maya Achi women in the case against five ex-PAC members, who were each sentenced to 30 years for crimes against humanity. Errors in translation are… Read More ›

• Achi women, their truth weaves the story

  By kevodell on January 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  In light of the verdicts handed down against the 5 ex-PACs for crimes against humanity, Famdegua and Caso Diario Militar issued a statement in support of the Achi women. Achi women, their truth weaves the story Today we remember, 24… Read More ›

• Mujeres Achi – Five ex-PACs Found Guilty And Sentenced

  By kevodell on January 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “This court believes the testimony of the Achi women” In the case of the 36 Maya Achi Women Survivors of Sexual Violence, yesterday, five men were sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail for crimes committed, during the… Read More ›

• Podcast – The indigenous resistance against megaprojects

  By kevodell on January 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Gio B’at’z spoke, recently, on the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center podcast, Emancipated, on a book he is working on about the Maya Ixil resistance and the struggle against mega-projects in Guatemala. During the talk, he discusses state-sponsored violence, the… Read More ›

• Weaving Justice with the 36 Maya Achi Women

  By kevodell on January 19, 2022 • ( 0 )

  ‘Weaving Justice with the 36 Maya Achi Women’ is a series of blog posts by The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) in relation to the case of the wartime rape of Indigenous women, and the trial of five of… Read More ›

• “Becoming president of Guatemala requires resources that I don’t have”

  By kevodell on January 19, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Roman Gressier presents, in El Faro, an interview with Martín Toc, the President of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán. Few organizations can paralyze Guatemala without setting foot in the capital. The 48 Cantons of Totonicapán, a Maya K’iche’ Indigenous authority… Read More ›

• In Guatemala, Ex-Paramilitaries Face Trial for Wartime Rape of Indigenous Women

  By kevodell on January 12, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Jo-Marie Burt and Paolo Estrada write in NACLA about the recently started trial of former members of the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PAC), for the rape of Indigenous women during the internal armed conflict. The PAC were paramilitary groups created by… Read More ›

• Guatemala: 25 years later, ‘firm and lasting peace’ is nowhere to be found

  By kevodell on January 10, 2022 • ( 0 )

  W. George Lovell has written, in The Conversation, on the failing of the peace accords to bring a firm and lasting peace, highlighting the legacy of violence, corruption, neo-liberalism, and over exploitation of human and natural resources. Dec. 29 marked… Read More ›

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