Ngenkathi impi yangaphakathi yaseGuatemala yeminyaka engamashumi amathathu nesithupha yaphela ngo-1996, "ukuthula" bekungasho ubulungiswa kwabasinde ekunyamalaleni kwayo, ukuhlukunyezwa, ukudlwengulwa kanye nokubulawa, okwagcina kuthathe izimpilo zabantu abangu-200,000 - iningi labo okungabomdabu baseMeya - futhi kwafinyelela umvuthwandaba kulokho. ikhomishini ye-UN ebizwa ngokuthi "izenzo zokubulalana kwabantu." Labo abanomthwalo wemfanelo basala ezikhundleni zokuphatha. Amacala okubulala abhekene nawo asamile ezinkantolo zikazwelonke nezamazwe ngamazwe.
Nokho kulo nyaka, ngenxa yomzabalazo owathatha amashumi eminyaka walabo abasinde kanye nezishoshovu zamalungelo abantu, ubulungiswa bungase bufinyeleleke. NgoMashi 24 eGuatemala ikhishwe Amafayela ayizigidi ezingu-7 avela Kungobo Yomlando Yamaphoyisa Kazwelonke Womphakathi (NCP). Kufaka phakathi amafayela ayimfihlo "kubantu abavukela umbuso" okusolwa ukuthi bangabantu bomdabu, abafundi, abasebenzi kanye nezinye izishoshovu. Amanye amafayela, akhishwe Kungobo Yomlando Yezempi, anemininingwane yezenzo eziyimfihlo, ukubulawa kwabantu kanye namaqhinga "okushisa komhlaba", futhi afaka umyalo omkhulu wamasosha ekuhlelweni nasekubulaweni kwawo.
Le mibhalo eyehlisiwe, kanye nobufakazi bofakazi, imelela ubufakazi obuqinile bokuthi ukwesaba umbuso kwaba kanjani isu lokulwa nokuvukela umbuso laseGuatemala. Kukhona nobufakazi obusha bokusebenzisana kwe-US kulelo su. NgoMashi 17 i-National Security Archive ese-US yashicilela imibhalo eyishumi nanye engachazwanga evela ku-Bureau of Intelligence and Research yoMnyango Wezwe, eqinisekisa ukuthi izikhulu zase-US ezisezingeni eliphakeme zazisazi kahle isenzo samasosha ezokuphepha aseGuatemala ukuthi i-United States yayihlomisa futhi iqeqesha. ngaleso sikhathi.
Omunye umbiko wango-1986 uthi: “Abaningi abanyamalala baye bathunjwa abombutho wezokuphepha.” “Leli qhinga,” uyaqhubeka, “laphumelela. Lo mbhalo uphetha ngokukhathazeka okukodwa: "Ukunyamalala nokubulawa kwabantu okumbalwa okumenyezelwe kakhulu...kungabukela phansi kalula imizamo yethu kuCongress yokusiza iGuatemala ngokwezomnotho nakwezempi."
Le mibhalo manje isisetshenziswa ezinkantolo zaseGuatemala e Amacala ngokumelene nezikhulu ezimbili zamaphoyisa, u-Hector Rios no-Abraham Gomez, ngokunyamalala komholi wabafundi ngo-1984. Bazoba nokubaluleka okungenakulinganiswa "emacaleni okubulala" ngokumelene nabamangalelwa abafana no-Oscar Humberto Mejia Víctores no-Efrain Rios Montt, owake waba ngondlovukayiphikiswa. unesihlalo kuCongress. Khonamanjalo, ngosuku olungemva kokukhishwa kombiko we-NCP, unkosikazi kamxazululi wamalungelo abantu waseGuatemala, uGladys Monteroso, bathunjwa futhi bahlukunyezwe ngamadoda azifihle ubuso.
Nokho, kusukela esithunzini somlando osithwe ukungajeziswa, iGuatemala ibonakala ijoyina inhlangano yamazwe ngamazwe yokubeka izinto obala ngokomlando. E-Guatemala, nokho-lapho ubulungiswa buhlukile emthethweni wokungajeziswa, futhi udlame luhlala luyinto evamile-abaningi bayabuza ukuthi ngabe izinqubomgomo ezintsha zizobhekana ngempela yini nefa lobushokobezi bombuso, noma ukuthi izwi lobulungiswa lizophinde lithuliswe futhi.
U-Kelly Lee ungumbhali wase-Springfield, e-Oregon, futhi ungumphelezeli wamalungelo abantu ne-Guatemala Accompaniment Project.
UMichael Gould-Wartofsky ungumbhali ozimele waseNew York City omsebenzi wakhe uvele ku-The Nation, Jewish Currents, Monthly Review, kanye Nezimbongi Eziphikisana Nempi (Izincwadi Zesizwe).
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