scorched earth campaign

2013-03-19. Genocide Trial begins in Guatemala

Images from the first day of the historic trial against former de facto dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and former Intelligence Director José Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez.

2009-03. Scorched Earth: The Rio Negro Massacre at Pak’oxom

27th anniversary of the massacre carried out to make way for the Chixoy hydro-electric project.

2007-11. Flashback: 2004 Day of the Dead in Comalapa

CONAVIGUA commemorates the victims exhumed at the Comalapa military garrison. San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala.

2007-10. Plan de Sanchez: Never again such Savagery

“What we want is penal justice against those responsible for the massacre.”

2007-10. Visit to the Forensic Anthropological Foundation

Ten years after the signing of the Peace Accords, the search for war victims continues.

2007-07. The Chixoy Hydro-Electrical Dam and Genocide in Río Negro

The community of Rio Negro was wiped out in order to make way for the Chixoy hydro-electric project.

2007-06. The March for Remembrance Halts the Military Parade

Protestors manage to block the military parade as they claim it adds insult to injury after the war-time atrocities.

2007-06. The March for Remembrance: Portraits and Details

Protestors manage to block the military parade as they claim it adds insult to injury after the war-time atrocities.

2007-06. Offensive for Remembrance: Where are the Disappeared?

Events by human rights groups in Guatemala as National Day Against Forced Disappearances is commemorated.

2007-02. Primavera del Ixcán: The Resistance Fair

We, the Communities in Popular Resistance (CPR), were born in 1983 due to the repression unleashed by the government and army.

2007-02. The People of Primavera