“We organized as women” | The Guatemalan Genocide | Women’s History Month | USC Shoah Foundation
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Guatemalan Genocide survivor, Juliana Tun Xalin, was born in Chimaltenango, Guatemala in 1958. She was interviewed by the Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG) in Guatemala in 2015. Please enable closed captioning for English translation.
“We realized that women had a right to participate in any activity in the community. Not only men, we can also do it. We have a right to reclaim our… There are things that happen to us, and we can’t just stand there. We must know we have rights. […] We thought, ‘Why don’t we organize as women?’”
The Guatemalan Genocide refers to the killings of civilians, especially those of Mayan origin, as part of counter-insurgency operations during the 1960-1996 Guatemalan Civil War. While massacres took place in 1966-1967, the most intensive period of killings was from the Panzós massacre in 1978 until 1983.
The Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG) has collected more than 500 video interviews from Guatemalan survivors and witnesses in Guatemala. All conducted in Spanish or K’iche’, the testimonies are preserved and indexed by USC Shoah Foundation, which began adding them to the Visual History Archive in 2016. Currently there are 32 testimonies searchable in the Visual History Archive. FAFG continues to collect and grow the Guatemalan testimonies and collection. Learn more about the Guatemalan Genocide at https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/guatemalan.
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