Cooperant Update: poem from tribunal tower 42 years into the future: will we have unlearned genocide?

poem from tribunal tower 42 years into the future: will we have unlearned genocide? April 24, 2024 By: Romi Fischer-Schmidt, New Hope Foundation cooperant This is a reflection on the experience of walking with four Maya Achi women survivors (Pedrina López Depaz, Paulina Ixpatá Alvarado, Máxima García Valey, Margarita Alvarado [...]

Rabinal Legal Clinic Psychologist Speaks about Day for Dignity of Internal Armed Conflict Victims

Yesterday, Guatemala celebrated the 25th National Day for the Dignity of the Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict. Survivors from across the country marched through Guatemala City to honour the loved ones who were taken from them by state violence, to demand the return of the disappeared, and to call [...]

2024-10-31T11:22:39-04:00February 26th, 2024|Truth, justice & impunity|

Day 4: Rancho Bejuco Trial – Survivors Continue to Share Painful Testimony

June 14, 2023 Written by Lenora [Content warning: Survivor testimony contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of the aftermath of the massacre.] Three more witnesses from Rabinal gave testimonies today. Three Witnesses Remember the Family Members They Lost, Demand Justice The first witness, Paulina Alvarado Ixpatá, is one of the 36 [...]

2024-04-15T09:43:48-04:00June 16th, 2023|Truth, justice & impunity|

Day 13 & 14: Maya Achi Women Seeking Justice: “A strategic design to pulverize the community fabric and destroy its productive capacity.”

Written by Laura Monday, January 24th 2022, and Thursday, January 27th 2022 Pedrina Lopez de Paz in the foreground, Paulina Ixtapá in the background photographed in the foreground of the courtroom on January, 24th, 2022. Photo Credits: Verdad y Justicia. The court reconvened Monday morning to hear [...]

2022-02-03T12:11:09-04:00February 3rd, 2022|Truth, justice & impunity|

Day 8: Maya Achi Women Seeking Justice: There is a high degree of coherence and credibility amongst the womens’ testimonies

Thursday, January 13th, 2022 Written by María and Lisa Vinicio Lopez Galvez while giving testimony before the court on January 13, 2022. (Photo Credit: Verdad y Justicia.) On the 8th day of trial, the first witness was Vinicio Lopez Galvez who worked for the “Temporary High Level Commission”. He [...]

2022-01-18T13:12:23-04:00January 14th, 2022|Truth, justice & impunity|
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