While we await the next steps of the genocide trial, we are honored to provide an accessible archive of the daily coverage we provided from day 1 of the trial. Please read and share this historic collection.
- Genocide on Trial, Day 1: Ixil witnesses speak
- Genocide on Trial, Day 2: Ixil Voices in the Halls of Justice
- Genocide on Trial, Day 3: “…justice for everything we lived through.”
- Juan Raymundo Maton: “…they destroyed everything, not just our crops but our culture.”
- Genocide on Trial, Days 4 & 5: “This is how my heart feels, thank you for asking me.”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 6: “What I came here to share, I felt it in the living flesh, in my bones.”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 7: “I am telling this to the eyes and ears of the world.”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 8: Women survivors of sexual violence, “Your truth is our truth”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 9: “We were the first ones to fall…”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 10: Expert witnesses testify, “Racism facilitated the extermination of the Ixil…”
- Exclusive Interview with the AJR: “It is our right to demand justice and reveal the truth”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 12: Beatriz Manz, author of “Paradise in Ashes”
- Genocide on Trial, Days 11-14: Forensic experts testify
- Genocide on Trial, Days 13 & 14: Defense experts testify, “There was never intention to commit genocide”
- Genocide on Trial, Days 15 & 16: Experts testify, “The Ixil social fabric was destroyed in the attack against their culture”
- Genocide on Trial, Days 17 & 18: AJR Responds to efforts to delegitimize the trial
- Genocide on Trial, Day 19: Defense delays resting their case; Statements outside courtroom multiply
- Genocide on Trial, Day 20: Defense grandstands; Trial proceedings at risk
- Genocide on Trial, Day 20 part 2: AJR survivors respond to dramatic events
- Genocide Trial, Day 21: Trial will continue, Proceedings await decision from Constitutional Court
- Constitutional Court issues rulings, ongoing questions about how they impact genocide trial proceedings
- Genocide trial still suspended: Supporters remain hopeful, public dialogue continues
- Genocide on Trial, Day 22: Trial reconvenes and attempts to move forward
- Genocide on Trial, Day 23: Proceedings continue, trial will reconvene on May 7
- Genocide on Trial, Day 24/25: Defense incensed and exposed, Judge moves to concluding arguments
- Genocide on Trial, Day 26: Concluding arguments, “You cannot deny the undeniable”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 26 part 2: Benjamin Jerónimo on behalf of AJR, “I ask that justice be done… so the survivors can feel peace”
- Genocide on Trial, Day 27: Genocide trial closes and moves to deliberations
- Ríos Montt: Guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity
- Sentence of Dignified Reparations for the Ixil People
- Genocide trial sentence overturned; CALDH press conference called sentence, “An opportunity for peace”
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