NISGUA visits Sponsoring Community in Washington, D.C. area
The victim asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering. ... To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins victim and witness in a common alliance. ... In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of [...]
Paramilitaries Sentenced to Thousands of Years for Plan de Sánchez Massacre
The information below was translated from a press statement by CALDH (in Spanish below) Read Amnesty International's statementOn March 20, the First Tribunal for High Risk Cases in Guatemala sentenced 5 members of the Guatemalan military to 7,710 years in prison for the massacre of 256 people in the Plan de Sánchez community in July of 1982.The former military commissioner [...]
Historica condena por masacre de Plan de Sánchez
Comunicado de CALDH - www.caldh.orgEl Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos, CALDH, manifiesta su complacencia ante la reciente condena de un comisionado militar y cuatro ex patrulleros militares responsables de la masacre de la Aldea Plan de Sánchez, Rabinal, en julio de 1982 en donde fueron asesinadas más de doscientas cincuenta personas.La sentencia condenatoria recoge elementos fundamentales para [...]
Alta Comisionada recibida por miles en Totonicapán
Alcaldes comunitarios alzan las varas que simbolizan su autoridad.Graham HuntEl 13 de marzo, 2012, reunidos en el estadio Atanasio Tzul, en la ciudad de Totonicapán, miles de representantes de pueblos indígenas de toda Guatemala dieron la bienvenida a la Alta Comisionada de Naciones Unidas de los Derechos Humanos (ACNUDH), Navi Pillay, de visita oficial al país. En discursos pronunciados ante [...]
High Commissioner received by thousands in Totonicapán
Community mayor raise their varas, staffs symbolic of their authority.Graham HuntOn March 13, 2012, gathered in the Atanasio Tzul stadium in the city of Totonicapán, thousands of representatives of Indigenous Peoples from across Guatemala welcomed the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on official visit to the country. In discourses pronounced before the assembly and reports presented [...]
Preliminary Hearing in Case against José Efraín Ríos Montt
Versión en español On Thursday, January 26, 2012, in a preliminary hearing, General José Efraín Ríos Montt was linked to the ongoing legal process for genocide and crimes against humanity by the first justice for high risk cases, Carol Patricia Flores. Ríos Montt refused to make a statement. Despite the gravity of the charges, the judge ordered house arrest [...]