Roberto Jones
@rjstrikers
Bringing awareness about Human Rights. I have an affection for Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico & Latin America. No a la minería, sí a la vida.
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#CasoGenocidioIxil #ManuelBeneictoLucasGarcía
Se llama al perito Álvaro Luis Jacobo González, arqueólogo, quien ratificó su peritaje. Este consistió en la exhumación de una víctima determinada. Indicó que se localizó el área de la fosa común y luego se procedió a
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity IFCLA Popular Resistance Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Red Internacional de Solidaridad con Guatemala Denver Justice and Peace Committee Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network CRLN The witness flee to the mountains with the rest of her family, except for her husband who is still missing.
'I came to say what happened to me, I ask that the law be applied to the person who did this, I suffered, I became a widow, what I want is for justice to be done.'
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity IFCLA Popular Resistance Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Red Internacional de Solidaridad con Guatemala Denver Justice and Peace Committee Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network CRLN she lived there with her husband, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and her one and a half year old son:
'The soldiers came and burned my house, grabbed my husband and I never saw him again. They burned my house, they took my husband away with his hands tied behind his back”
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity IFCLA Popular Resistance Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Red Internacional de Solidaridad con Guatemala The last witness of the day, 61 years old, testifies about the events that occurred in get village of Jauventau, San Juan Cotzal, Chajul.
On January 23, 1982, about 50 soldiers arrived in her community at about 7:00 a.m. and surrounded her house
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity IFCLA Popular Resistance Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Red Internacional de Solidaridad con Guatemala The expert stated that they found a wooden coffin covered with a cloth, and inside an incomplete skeleton of an infant of approximately three to six years old. Associated objects were also found, such as vessels that were deposited near the skull as offerings.
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity IFCLA Popular Resistance Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Red Internacional de Solidaridad con Guatemala The expert emphasized the importance of the work being carried out with the accompaniment of the family members who indicated the area to be explored. Before starting the work, a ceremony was held, which is extremely important for the relatives and a sign of respect.
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity Archaeologist Alvaro Gonzalez, gave his expert testimony of a 2006 exhumation carried out in the municipality of Chajul.
The exhumation was carried out with the objective of recovering remains from a clandestine grave.
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity 'So here I am giving my statement because here (this court) is where they impart justice. They (the soldiers) even killed children and they did not have any blame. I come here to clarify what I saw, I come to speak the truth.'
Rights Action BAY AREA CISPES IRTF Cleveland Guatemala Solidarity Project Guatemala Solidarity 'They came by helicopter to drop bombs, sometimes up to three times a day. Many people who were hiding were hit, others were not. That is what we lived through, it is not a joke or an invention, we saw it with our own eyes, it is a great disaster what they did.
#CasoGenocidioIxil Today's first witness, a survivor of the Estrella Polar massacre, declares in court: “ They wanted to finish us off, to finish everything and I don't know what was going on in their minds. Now I can speak, I have my rights.”
High holy drama here Shai Davidai
We’ve just logged on after a beautiful & peaceful Passover Holiday.
There hasn’t been a single ‘antisemitic’ attack in our neighborhood which houses tens of thousands Orthodox Jewish families.
This hyperbole to transform any criticism of
Las juventudes de CODECA no iniciaron en X, la organización de juventudes se consolida en los territorios.
Nos respalda nuestro caminar ✊🏾🌋
#SomosCodeca