“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 ›
Civil Defence Patrols (PAC)
Weaving Justice with the 36 Maya Achi Women
‘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 ›
UDEFEGUA denounces assaults at exhumation
ALERT We denounce assaults in the exhumation for the massacre of 116 children in 1988, in Cunén. This Tuesday, 28th September 2021, former civil defence patrollers (ex-PAC), blocked and obstructed the start of an exhumation programmed for today in the… Read More ›