Timeline - NISGUA

April 2013

Genocide on Trial, Day 10: Expert witnesses testify, “Racism facilitated the extermination of the Ixil…”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:04:36+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, ethnocide, forensic anthropology, genocide, Guatemala, Ixil, justice, Kaibil, Maya, racism, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, solidarity, testimony, trial|

NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez for genocide and crimes against humanity. Read our previous summaries: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4/5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, [...]

Exploitation License Granted for Tahoe Resources Escobal Project in Context of Escalating Violence

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:30:48+00:00Tags: CALAS, communique, criminalization, environmental justice, Escobal mine, human rights, Mining, San Rafael Las Flores, Xinca|

Communities in the departments of Santa Rosa and Jalapa have been peacefully resisting the proposed Escobal silver mine, operated by Minera San Rafael, Guatemalan Subsidiary of Canada's Tahoe Resources for more than three years. [...]

Genocide on Trial, Day 9: “We were the first ones to fall…”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:04:46+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, genocide, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Ixil, justice, Maya, megadevelopment projects, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, solidarity, testimony, translation, trial|

NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez for genocide and crimes against humanity. See our archive of live Twitter updates at @NISGUA_Guate.Read our previous summaries: Day 1, Day 2, Day [...]

Genocide on Trial, Day 8: Women survivors of sexual violence, “Your truth is our truth”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:04:56+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, genocide, Guatemala, human rights, impunity, Ixil, justice, Maya, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, sexual violence, solidarity, testimony, translation, trial, women, women's rights|

Genocide on Trial, Day 7: “I am telling this to the eyes and ears of the world”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:05:08+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, genocide, Guatemala, human rights, impunity, Ixil, justice, Maya, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, translation, trial|

March 2013

Genocide on Trial, Day 6: “What I came here to share, I felt it in the living flesh, in my bones.”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:05:20+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, genocide, Guatemala, human rights, impunity, Ixil, justice, Maya, Mining, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, testimony, translation, trial|

NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez for genocide crimes against humanity. See our archive of live Twitter updates at @NISGUA_Guate. Read our previous summaries: Day [...]