US EditionUN rights committee finds Guatemala responsible for transgenerational harm to Mayan peoples
- In 2021, Mayan leaders brought a case before the UN Human Rights Committee claiming Guatemala forcibly displaced 269 K'iche', Ixil, and Kaqchikel members during 1980s armed conflict scorched earth operations.
- This displacement followed military campaigns that targeted Indigenous populations suspected of guerrilla support amid Mayan protests for equality and cultural recognition before the violence.
- The Committee determined that Guatemala breached its obligations under the UN treaty protecting civil and political rights by forcibly displacing Mayan communities, compelling them to hide their identities, causing cultural erosion, and obstructing essential funeral ceremonies vital to their spiritual wellbeing.
- Committee member Hélène Tigroudja emphasized that forced displacement continues indefinitely until those affected are either safely and honorably able to return home or are resettled voluntarily elsewhere, and she underscored the profound loss inflicted on victims who were deprived of their cultural identity.
- The ruling orders Guatemala to implement reparations including searching for remains, enabling culturally appropriate funeral rites, providing medical and psychological care, and publicly acknowledging responsibility to address transgenerational harms.
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UN rights committee finds Guatemala responsible for transgenerational harm to Mayan peoples
The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the country’s armed conflict in the 1980s. The ruling marks a landmark decision that addresses the transgenerational impact of state-led human rights violations. The case was brought in 2021 by 269 members of the K’iche’, Ixil and Kaqchikel communities, who were…
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Statement from the Coordinator of Ixil Organizations on the 12th Anniversary of the Genocide Verdict // Comunicado de la Coordinadora de Organizaciones Ixiles en el 12° Aniversario de la Sentencia por Genocidio
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. // Puedes encontrar el comunicado original en español más abajo. Coordinating Committee of Ixil Organizations With the energy of our grandmothers and grandfathers of the ka’va’l iq’: we–women and men, family members who have survived the internal armed conflict, Ixil organizations and human r…
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