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Preserving the Memory of Violence

The “scorched earth” policy of the Guatemalan government during the late 1970s and early 1980s resulted in the massacre of thousands upon thousands of Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan groups. A “Silent Genocide” is what human rights scholars would term this atrocity since the world community gave little recognition, much less condemnation, to this wholesale decimation of a people by their own government. > Read more stories

Worth Noting

The Ninth Biennial International Conference: Societies in Transition: Balancing Security, Social Justice and Tradition will be held in the City of Marrakesh from June 2 to June 5, 2010. Read more.