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Release Guatemalan Political Prisoner Rubén Herrera
Since Friday, March 15, Rubén Herrera, human rights defender and member of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango for the Defense of Natural Resources (ADH), has been unjustly imprisoned for alleged crimes committed in relation to community resistance of the Cambalam hydroelectric dam, Santa
Stand with Guatemala's Human Rights Heroes
On June 13th of last year, Yolanda Oquelí was shot on her way home to her two young children. She was shot because she has led her community in peaceful resistance to a mine which an American company is trying to build in their midst. Fortunately, Yolanda survived, but she has lived with the
Free Guatemalan Peasant Leader Ramiro Choc
"We express ourselves through loving nature, loving life, loving humans, loving the past, loving the present, loving the future… I, like other comrades who suffer judicial persecution, try to defend humanity. In it's entirety, not just the indigenous or garifuna but all human beings. This is our
Justice for Genocide in Guatemala
The Genocide Case has been stalled, and is at risk of being annulled. Please act now to make a historic stand in solidarity with the Ixil people and all Guatemalans who seek justice today for a better tomorrow! Over the last month, over 100 Ixil Mayan survivors of genocide have risked their lives
Why is this campaign important to you?
Conozco Guatemala y la situación de injusticia que provocó el conflicto armado y la feroz represión que llevaron a cabo los sucesivos gobiernos títeres de la oligarquía local y de los intereses yanquis contra la población indefensa. El juicio contra Ríos Montt trasciende el ámbito de Guatemala y se sitúa en la esfera global, en la medida en que los crímenes cometidos allá son crímenes de lesa humanidad, por lo que a toda la esfera global compete juzgarlos y castigarlos.
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We have to support the right stuff !
Porque los genocidios no pueden quedar impunes.
En nuestros Antepasados está la naturaleza de la verdad; debemos actuar ante la barbarie, injusticia social. El genocidio no puede quedar impune!
Those of us who worked for Justice in Central America in the 60,70,80s remember the massacres of mostly Native Peoples in Guatemala (although there were phases when certain other groups were picked out-the years of the massacre of teachers, etc.) It is estimated that over 1/4 of a million people were killed in Guatemala over the past 50 years-most of them civilians by military and paramilitary death squads. Take a minute and follow through with this.
Los genocidas tienen que ser castigados en vida. Jusgarlos y condenarlos por lo que han echo: asesinar a nuestros abuelos y abuelas!