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Coming Events - More details will follow
June 28th 2008-
Reconstructing Memory among Generations
A workshop for students and parents
Britannia Community Centre's Gym, 12:00 - 4:00pm
June 29th 2008-
Picnic, the
Past Events
June 21st 2008- Day against Forced Disappearance
Undisappearing the Disappeared
Rhizome Café , 7:00pm
June 6th 2008 -
HIJOS: Sons and Daughters of the Disappeared and the struggle for NUNCA MAS in
12:30-1:30, Coach House,
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.
More Info:
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR34/042/2000/en/dom-AMR340422000en.html
MIMUNDO.ORG
Recent articles about H.I.J.O.S's activity:
Ambush-Protest at Mejia Victore's Home
More Info:
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR34/042/2000/en/dom-AMR340422000en.html
MIMUNDO.ORG
Blog Archive
ATTACK AGAINST HIJOS GUATEMALA
Dear Friends,
Please find a recent comunciado from HIJOS
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
Please find a recent comunciado from HIJOS
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
The 2008 Military March Has Been Suspended
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
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.
Name________ City _________ Province_________
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_________