Friday, April 7, 2017

Genocide in Guatemala

This is a documentary about forensic anthropologists (BONES?) doing research on the 200,000 Mayan peasants who died in the Guerilla War in Guatemala ...


12 comments:

Mykaiesha McCarthy said...

It's nice that the Guatemala people are showing no one is above justice.

Joseph Holbrook said...

yes, good point Kykaiesha

Unknown said...

Seeing the former presidents daughter deny everything sickens me. I will be looking for a follow up of this case. It is rare and difficult for a politician to be brought to justice but Its good that he is in a court of law needing to face the crimes he committed against all those innocent Mayan people to just live as simple as they can to survive.

Chasity Daguillard said...

I thinks its amazing to uncover history of a country. They shouldn't be ashamed of their past ancestors. It's sad how these politicians get away with murder.

David Castilla said...

Corruption is nothing new in politics. Uncovering history such as this in Guatemala was def interesting.

John Bryan001 said...

Interesting to see the history from this perspective.

Sebastian Gonzalez said...

I understand that the former Guatemalan President's daughter is trying protect her father, but it was hard to listen to her deny stuff like forensic evidence. Hopefully the ones responsible for this are brought to justice one day.

Mickalia Paisley said...

I really hope he is punished accordingly because fact is, no one is above the law.

Unknown said...

He deserves to be punished. I agree Mickalia.

mgarcia said...

How cruel. Guatemalan government is so corrupt. Sickens me to know they would put innocent people through that.

luisramos1472 said...

I agree with the comment above

Lourdes Cardelle said...

It's absolutely insane to know that over 200,000 people were killed in a time span of 36 years in Guatemala. Thankfully it wasn't more but still that was a lot of people killed. Hopefully Jose gets the correct sentencing because he had to have known that that was going on he just chose to ignore it, just as Castro and present day Venezuelan dictator Maduro. It's also ridiculous how his daughter is brainwashed to not see that a genocide occurred. But then again she was a privileged child and like most children wouldn't know or care. She should realize though that there was a genocide and she can't pretend as if though there wasn't because there is no other way to explain that large amount of deaths.