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Saturday, July 14, 2012

''Guatemalan Femicide: The Legacy of Repression and Injustice''

From Upside Down World

''One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military's 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence.

Rape, mutilation, sexual slavery, forced abortion, and sterilizations were just some of the sadistic tools used in a systematic practice of state-sponsored terror to crush the surviving population into submission through fear and shame via the suffering of their mothers, sisters, and daughters.''


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2 comments:

  1. it was done to my tribe here too. nobody talks about how women have been treated like that in USA. it's hidden

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  2. Zencali--So Sorry to hear that............thanks for your comment..

    nakedempire

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