From the Archive

Mayan men and women in Guatemala City await the government’s ‘Commission for Historical Clarity’ report on the slaying of more than 200,000 indigenous people, 1999

“I am thirty now,” Estella said. “I remember one day in the early eighties when there was a procession through the main plaza to celebrate Guatemala’s independence. Every year all the kids from the local schools joined in the procession. I was there with my younger siblings. Marimba music was playing. All of a sudden soldiers came into the area and opened fire on the crowd and everyone began to run, because we were all being fired at. Dead bodies were strewn everywhere, just blood and mangled corpses, and we had to jump over them and through them to get away.” [read newsletter]

—Chenoa Egawa

Guatemala

ICWA Fellow (1997-2000)