updated Sat. December 16, 2023
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ReliefWeb
March 28, 2018
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is releasing today the report Situation of Human Rights in Guatemala. ... This situation has led the IACHR to request that the Guatemalan State adopt precautionary measures for the benefit of human rights defenders and justice operators,Ãâà...
teleSUR English
March 7, 2018
"We need a logistics vessel that can allow us to be more successful operationally," one Guatemalan official told Haley. Over the past six decades, the U.S. government has pumped billions of dollars into Guatemala's military, most notoriously when it aided the Central American government's genocide ofÃâà...
LobeLog
March 2, 2018
In Rwanda and Guatemala, for example, civil wars escalated into genocides. ... dictatorship; arms and training to the militias of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines; arms and training to the Guatemalan regime during the genocide there; and guns and munitions to Rwanda during the genocide in 1994.
The Providence Journal
March 2, 2018
Accused Guatemalan war criminal living in R.I. faces deportation .... The federal government is now trying to deport Samayoa back to Guatemala, where he will likely face charges in dozens of murders and atrocities .... This was in the early 1980s, the height of the genocide against the indigenous Mayans.
KRWG
February 7, 2018
More than 20 years after Guatemala's civil war ended in 1996, civilians are still advocating for justice after the genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of Maya people. Guatemala's military launched a campaign targeting Maya, claiming they were allies to guerrilla forces known as the GuatemalanÃâà...
Texas State University
December 31, 1999
The Guatemalan genocide and growing struggle to fight government corruption will be explored during a Common Experience film screening this ... “The US government has played a really negative role in the history of Guatemala… putting the country on a path for 36 years of civil war,” Devine said. “That'sÃâà...
