On December 1st, 2020, Xinka, Ixil and Garifuna authorities met with a mission from the Organization of American States (OAS). They called on the OAS to recommend that President Giammetei and the Congress' Executive Council resign and cease attacks against the Constitutional Court and Human Rights Ombudsperson. See below for [...]
By: Este Chep, BTS Lead Cooperant photo credit: AJR Hearings on the Maya Ixil genocide case began in early November 2019. On November 4th, the first hearing was held on the case representing 1731 victims against military men Benedicto Lucas Garcia and Manuel Callejas y Callejas on charges of crimes [...]
Expert testimony from Marlon Garcia (in Spanish only), who traveled to Nova Scotia in 2007 with his exhibit: Panzos 25 Years Later. Since he worked as forensic anthropologist and photographer with the Forensic Anthropologist Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG), he was asked to give his testimony during the genocide trial in [...]
Originally posted in Embassy Magazine: http://www.embassynews.ca/2014/01/10/guatemala-canada-must-break-its-silence/45005 Barbara Wood, Rachel Warden, Stacey Gomez on behalf of the America's Policy Group Wikimedia Photo: Surizar We urge the Canadian government to take a stance on the ongoing case against José Efraín Rios Montt, the former military head of state of [...]
After a theatrical show this morning where the defense lawyers for Mauricio Rodriquez Sanchez and Efrain Rios Montt, accused of genocide, stormed out of the court in "pacific resistance," saying that the judge, Jazmin Barrios, was carrying out an illegal judicial process. This afternoon, judge Patricia Flores, ordered by the [...]
“La tierra tembló porque ella sabía que la impunidad no había sido todavía vencida: tembló de ira, y con toda razón. Pero a la larga la tierra, la madre, volverá a reconocerse en este mundo que miente cada vez que dice que es eterno como la impunidad y la injusticia” [...]
May 10, 2013 Friends, I write today as history is made. Justice, at last, will be served in Guatemala! Today, in a packed courtroom, Judge Yassmin Barrios and the tribunal which accompanied her, gave their verdict: Efrain Rios Montt, de facto military president from March 1982 to August 1983, guilty [...]
“EL GENOCIDIO NO SE PUEDE PERDONAR… NO SE PUEDE CONCEDER UNA AMNISTÍA” Así lo refirió el abogado Ramón Cadena, en su peritaje titulado: “Graves violaciones a la población civil de la región Ixil, de marzo de 82 a octubre de 83”, el cual fue presentado hoy en el quinceavo día [...]
SEXTO DIA. Esta jornada de debate oral y público dio inicio con la solicitud de la defensa de los militares, Francisco Palomo y Danilo Rodríguez, de inhibirse a la jueza Iris Jassmín Barrios Aguilar del Tribunal, de seguir conociendo el proceso e interpusieron dos recusaciones contra ella con el objeto [...]
