V. Sanford

Buried Secrets (eBook, PDF)

Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Between the late 1970s and the mid 1980s, Guatemala was torn by a civil war which came to be known as La Violencia. During this time of mass terror and extreme violence, more than 600 massacres occurred in villages destroyed by the army, one and a half million people were displaced, and more than 200,000 civilians murdered. 83% of the victims were Maya, the indigenous people of Guatemala. Buried Secrets brings these chilling statistics to life as it chronicles the journey of Mayan survivors seeking truth, justice, and community healing and demonstrates that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional genocide against the Maya. Victoria Sanford provides us with an insider's look at the workings of the Commission for Historical Clarification through the exhumation of clandestine cemeteries. The book is based on exhaustive research, including more than 400 testimonies from massacre survivors, interviews with members of the forensic team, human rights leaders, high-ranking military officers, guerrilla combatants, and government officials. Buried Secrets traces truth-telling and political change from isolated Maya villages to national political events, and provides a unique look into the experiences of Maya survivors as they struggle to rebuild their communities and lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781403973375
• Artikelnr.: 38281899

Autorenporträt

Victoria Sanford is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA. She is a member of the anthropology doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She holds a doctorate in Anthropology from Stanford University where she studied International Human Rights Law and Immigration Law at Stanford Law School. She was a Bunting Peace Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'The Bones Don't Lie' The Silencing of Maya Women The
Phenomenology of Terror Ethnography of Genocide Part I: 'It Fills My heart
with Sadness' Ethnography of Genocide Part II: The Exhumation and the
Anti-Christ Guatemalan Army Campaigns of Genocide From Survivor Testimonies
to Discourses of Power The Power Effects of Declaring the Truth Excavations
of the Heart: Healing Fragmented Communities Genocide and the 'Grey Zone'
of Justice