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Protect Mayan Lawyer Following Attempt on His Lifen - Human Rights Defender Alert
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, humans, violence, petition, action, take acktion, world, HumanRights, guatemala )


- 1739 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
On August 2 two masked men swerved in front of Amilcar Pop's car, forcing him to a violent stop. The men drew guns and beat on the windows of the Guatemalan lawyer's car shouting that they would kill him. Despite injuries from the accident, Pop was able
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The Novelist and the Murderers
World  (tags: death squads, indigenous, guatemala )


- 1781 days ago - thenation.com
<p>Efrain Bamaca--a guerrilla leader married to a Harvard-trained American lawyer--disappeared...a Guatemalan source says that Perez Molina had gone to pick up Bamaca.</p>
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Guatemala : The Secret Files / How Silicon Valley Nonprofit Helped Uncover Dirty War
World  (tags: Guatemala, human rights abuses, politicide, 45, 000 people, disappeared, Guatemalan police, archive project, human rights activists, lawyers, prosecutors, families, victims, Benetech, nonprofit, human rights software, President Alvaro Colom )

LucyKalei
- 1787 days ago - pbs.org
Founded to provide high-tech solutions to humanitarian problems, Benetech worked wi human rights activists to preserve/analyze 80M pgs police records, getting info families & human rights prosecutors'd hoped to find. Video + text + interactive timeline
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The Unmaking of An American
World  (tags: government, death squads, Guatemala )

Just
- 1807 days ago - truthawaits.com
The next thing I remember was awakening to loud noises, screams, and machine gun fire. I was too paralyzed with shock and fear to move, which may have been what saved my life. But there were holes in the floor of the loft, which appeared to have been...
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Country Profile: Guatemala
World  (tags: Guatemala, Nature, Maya )

Ben
- 2054 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A country of striking features and a strong indigenous culture, Guatemala's natural beauty and powerful identity stand in stark contrast to its bloody past and troubled present. Mountainous, heavily forested and dotted with Mayan ruins, lakes, volcanoe
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