HIJOS Guatemala

Friday, May 23, 2008

HIJOS: Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared and the struggle for NUNCA MAS in Guatemala

Our first event will be part of
The 2008 CALACS conference in Vancouver:
At the Crossroads of Empire.

Talk by Wendy Mendez (HIJOS Guatemala)

HIJOS: Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared and the struggle for NUNCA MAS in Guatemala.

Friday, June 6th 12:30-1:30.
Coach House, Green College, UBC

Written directions to Green College

Map of College Grounds

UBC Campus Map (Green College located at position 4A)

The CALACS conference is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2008

The event is sponsored by Green College

Everybody is invited

About H.I.J.O.S Guatemala

HIJOS is a human rights group that was established in 1999. It is made up of young people, many of them students, who were children when their parents were ''disappeared'', killed or massacred and have joined together recently, some of them returning from exile, to try and establish what happened to their parents and who was responsible for it. They also want to help educate the new generation in Guatemala about what happened during the years of repression.

Recent articles about H.I.J.O.S's activity:

Ambush-Protest at Mejia Victore's Home

H.I.J.O.S Reject Impunity

More Info:
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR34/042/2000/en/dom-AMR340422000en.html

MIMUNDO.ORG

ATTACK AGAINST HIJOS GUATEMALA

Dear Friends,

Please find a recent comunciado from HIJOS , who suffered an attack on the weekend. As we heard about recently, HIJOS and other organizations in Guatemala have succeeded in pressuring the government to not hold it's annual military parade this year, instead reclaiming the day as the National Day for the Heroes and Martyrs in Guatemala. Actions and events are being planned to celebrate the day in honour of loved ones.

We are waiting to see if an urgent action request will be sent. In the meantime, I would encourage you to write an email of support to HIJOS (preferably in Spanish, but English is ok) to:
hijosguatemala@gmail.com

Help us stop Military Day

For 4 decades the Guatemalan Military has committed Genocide against the Guatemalan people. However, the annual military parade keeps on taking place in the streets of Guatemala City. We are calling you to join us in our effort to halt this celebrative parade and declared this day as Genocide Day. You can help us by sending the following Email to the President of the Republic of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom.

Canada, June 2008
President of the Republic of Guatemala
Mr. Alvaro Colom
cartapresidente@scspr.gob.gt

Dear Mr President,

The Truth Commission that was established in Guatemala, as part of the peace agreements signed in 1996, concluded that Guatemalan Army Officials committed more than 80% of all the violations against human rights, during the decades of internal armed conflict. This is without mentioning the number of violations in which Guatemalan Army Officials were combined with other State authorities and also committed crimes against humanity. Today the survivors of genocide in Guatemala have opened a process against several high army generals involved in crimes against humanity during the internal armed conflict.

As Canadian citizens and residents, in observance of the international human rights conventions against genocide that have been signed by both countries, we ask that you, as Head of State of Guatemala, stop the Military Parade that takes place every 30th of June. To celebrate an institution that committed genocide against its own people is considered to be one of the highest symbols of Impunity, militarization and a regression to the Guatemala’s recent past.

Yours faithfully,

_____

Name________ City _________ Province_________

Friday, June 27, 2008

Reconstructing Memory among Generations

Saturday, June 7, 2008

UnDisappearing the Disappeared

Friday, May 23, 2008

HIJOS: Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared and the struggle for NUNCA MAS in Guatemala

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