*OPERATION CONDOR ON TRIAL: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ON LATIN AMERICAN RENDITION AND ASSASSINATION PROGRAM OPEN IN BUENOS AIRES*<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB416/> National Security Archive Posts CIA, DIA and State Depa* * http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB416/
* * * * *---------------------------------* * * *March 19, 2013* *Indicted for Genocide: Guatemala's Efraín Ríos Montt*<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB419/> U.S. and Guatemalan Documents Trace Dictator's Rise to Power. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB419/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) is providing daily updates on the genocide and crimes against humanity trial against Efrain Rios Montt and Jose Roriguez Sanchez. From day three<http://nisgua.blogspot.com/2013/03/genocide-on-trial-in-guatemala-day-3.html> http://nisgua.blogspot.com/ THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013 Genocide on Trial in Guatemala, Day 3: "...justice for everything we lived through."<http://nisgua.blogspot.com/2013/03/genocide-on-trial-in-guatemala-day-3.html> Read our previous summaries: Day 1<http://www.nisgua.blogspot.com/2013/03/genocide-on-trial-in-guatemala-ixil.html> , Day 2<http://nisgua.blogspot.com/2013/03/genocide-on-trial-in-guatemala-day-2.html>, and full archive of ongoing live Twitter coverage<https://twitter.com/NISGUA_Guate> . Survivor testimony continued on the third day of former dictator Efraín Rios Montt and intelligence chief Rodriguez Sánchez's trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. Hours of intense first-person accounts of violence and endurance left impressions of profound grief: "They killed our fathers, our mothers, and everything we loved," said one witness; as well as resolute purpose: "I am one of the few survivors. Perhaps I was sent to be the messenger of the story here." In all 12 witnesses were called to the stand to be questioned by lawyers for the prosecution and the accused. Most spoke with the aid of court-appointed Ixil Maya translators; one witness, Alberto López, was unable to deliver his testimony due to the lack of a K'iche' Maya translator and will be given another opportunity to take the stand in a future hearing. Among the witnesses were leaders of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation, the survivors' organization which first opened the genocide case more than a decade ago, including current AJR board member Domingo Raymundo Cobo and former board members Francisco Raymundo Chavez and Gaspár Velasco. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jb0wEjdJIqE/UUvIUEz4iZI/AAAAAAAABcY/cPEIxoi9WHA/s1600/Chico.jpg> Francisco Raymundo Cobo offers his testimony before the tribunal. Echoed details in the survivors' stories made clear the systematic nature of the Guatemalan military's scorched earth campaigns, as one after another witness told of the soldiers' extreme and indiscriminate cruelty; of the deliberate destruction of food, crops, animals, homes, and everything necessary for survival; of the violation of women's bodies and traditional clothing. They also told of the conditions of internal displacement in "*la montaña*", in the forests and hills of Quiché, as massacre survivors hid from army patrols and endured exposure and starvation. Gaspar Velasco said that he remained in the mountains from 1982 until the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996"But there is still no peace," he emphasized. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
