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Topic: Guatemala: police implicated in women's killing
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Fidel
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posted 27 February 2006 06:04 AM
It looks like OASIS is basically a human rights group. Groups like this are still in grave danger in a country like Guatemala, i'm sorry to say.Amnesty: Guatemala's 'feminicide' quote: The violence also bears a historical resonance that has exhumed the collective trauma of Guatemala's recent past. Some have compared the perpetrators' methods to those used against women during the government's counterinsurgency operations throughout the 36-year-long civil war that ended in 1996. During the U.S.-backed "scorched earth" campaign, government troops and their paramilitary allies routinely raped, tortured and murdered women in order to destroy civilian communities suspected of leftist sympathies. The war left an untold number of women suffering from the invisible wounds of widespread sexual violence and torture, as well as legions of men bearing more visible scars. Retired general Efrain Rios Montt - the "intellectual author" of the war crimes, according to some scholars-not only remains free but was even president of Congress until 2004 and ran for Guatemala's presidency in 2003.
amnesty usa ETA: This country is ripe for a revolution along with Chiapas, Honduras and that other BANANA REPUBLIC, El Salvador. Those bastards need cleaning the fuck out but good. Viva la revolucion!!! [ 03 March 2006: Message edited by: Fidel ]
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