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Author: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Publisher: San Francisco : Synthesis Publications ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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Information about the current situation in Guatemala (1983), gathered from testimonies given to the permanent People's Tribunal by witnesses from both positions and life styles.
Author: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Publisher: San Francisco : Synthesis Publications ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
Information about the current situation in Guatemala (1983), gathered from testimonies given to the permanent People's Tribunal by witnesses from both positions and life styles.
Author: Elizabeth A. Oglesby Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351401327 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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In Guatemala, it was called the "trial of the century": the 2013 prosecution of former de facto head of state (1982-1983) General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his intelligence chief, General José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya-Ixil people. Ríos Montt's seventeen-month reign was one of the bloodiest periods in Guatemala's history, with "scorched earth" massacres, the destruction of hundreds of Maya communities, and militarized resettlement of Mayas into "model villages." Ríos Montt was convicted on all charges. Ten days later, a higher court vacated the verdict on dubious procedural grounds. Nevertheless, Guatemala's genocide trial, held in the domestic courts in the country where the crimes were committed, was precedent-setting. In this volume, Guatemalan and international scholars rigorously explore the complexities of the Guatemala experience and reflect upon the case's implications for understanding and prosecuting the category of genocide more broadly. Topics include: the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency in explaining Guatemala's genocide; the politics of Maya collective memory; the intersections of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in genocide; the decades-long interconnections of national and transnational justice processes that brought the case to trial; and the limits and contributions of tribunal justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Justice, Administration of Languages : en Pages : 25
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Within ten days, Guatemalan courts made and unmade legal history. The trial and conviction of former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt on 10 May 2013 for genocide and other human rights violations was an extraordinary achievement for a justice system that must grapple simultaneously with the legacy of a vicious internal conflict and the contemporary scourges of gang violence, corruption and illegal drug trafficking. Victims had barely finished celebrating, however, when the Constitutional Court annulled the verdict in a confusing decision that raised questions of outside interference. Widespread impunity for past and present violence continues to have a corrosive effect on the country's democracy. Failure to renew the trial for mass atrocities against Ríos Montt and pursue justice for the victims of violent crime would undermine its halting progress toward rule of law, including a strong independent judiciary.
Author: Open Society Justice Initiative Publisher: ISBN: 9781936133994 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Efrain Rios Montt, the former military ruler of Guatemala, was convicted on May 10, 2013, of genocide and crimes against humanity by a court in Guatemala City. Three days later the conviction was overthrown by the country's constitutional court on procedural grounds. This book documents this attempt to provide local justice for mass crimes, by providing a summary of the six week trial, based on the daily reports on the www.riosmontt-trial.org website. Also available is an extended partial English translation of key sections of the conviction, and a translated text of the constitutional court ruling that led to the cancellation of the guilty verdict against Rios Montt, together with two dissenting opinions.
Author: Todd Landman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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This paper examines the 'corrective' effects of different framings of the same historical event through a controlled experiment using the case of the 2013 domestic trial against former leader of Guatemala General Ríos Montt. The experiment uses video footage, commentary on the trial from international news media and a research design with one control group and two treatment groups across a total of 156 participants. The results of the project show that additional 'civil war' and 'international human rights law' treatments have an impact on how respondents feel about the guilty verdict of the trial, even after controlling for socio-economic attributes and ideological perspectives. These differential results have direct bearing on how human rights events are portrayed and analysed, and by extension, how advocacy efforts from human rights activists can benefit from appropriate framing of events.
Author: Jennifer Schirmer Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812200594 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 364
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In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict resulted in 200,000 deaths and disappearances. The commission holds the Guatemalan military responsible for 93 percent of the deaths. In The Guatemalan Military Project, Jennifer Schirmer documents the military's role in human rights violations through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and unique in their first-hand descriptions of the campaign against Guatemala's citizens. High-ranking officers explain in their own words their thoughts and feelings regarding violence, political opposition, national security doctrine, democracy, human rights, and law. Additional interviews with congressional deputies, Guatemalan lawyers, journalists, social scientists, and a former president give a full and balanced account of the Guatemalan power structure and ruling system. With expert analysis of these interviews in the context of cultural, legal, and human rights considerations, The Guatemalan Military Project provides a successful evaluation of the possibilities and processes of conversion from war to peace in Latin America and around the world.
Author: Open Society Justice Initiative Publisher: ISBN: 9781936133994 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Efrain Rios Montt, the former military ruler of Guatemala, was convicted on May 10, 2013, of genocide and crimes against humanity by a court in Guatemala City. Three days later the conviction was overthrown by the country's constitutional court on procedural grounds. This book documents this attempt to provide local justice for mass crimes, by providing a summary of the six week trial, based on the daily reports on the www.riosmontt-trial.org website. Also available is an extended partial English translation of key sections of the conviction, and a translated text of the constitutional court ruling that led to the cancellation of the guilty verdict against Rios Montt, together with two dissenting opinions.
Author: Diane M. Nelson Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822389401 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 444
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Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each said to have “two faces.” Drawing on more than twenty years of research in Guatemala, Nelson explores how postwar struggles to reckon with traumatic experience illuminate the assumptions of identity more generally. Nelson brings together stories of human rights activism, Mayan identity struggles, coerced participation in massacres, and popular entertainment—including traditional dances, horror films, and carnivals—with analyses of mass-grave exhumations, official apologies, and reparations. She discusses the stereotype of the Two-Faced Indian as colonial discourse revivified by anti-guerrilla counterinsurgency and by the claims of duplicity leveled against the Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, and she explores how duplicity may in turn function as a survival strategy for some. Nelson examines suspicions that state power is also two-faced, from the left’s fears of a clandestine para-state behind the democratic façade, to the right’s conviction that NGOs threaten Guatemalan sovereignty. Her comparison of antimalaria and antisubversive campaigns suggests biopolitical ways that the state is two-faced, simultaneously giving and taking life. Reckoning is a view from the ground up of how Guatemalans are finding creative ways forward, turning ledger books, technoscience, and even gory horror movies into tools for making sense of violence, loss, and the future.
Author: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
Author: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
Author: Elizabeth A. Oglesby
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Author: International Crisis Group
Author: Open Society Justice Initiative
Author: Todd Landman
Author: Jennifer Schirmer
Author: Graeme Thompson
Author: Open Society Justice Initiative
Author: Diane M. Nelson