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Photographs by Jonathan Moller Preface by Rigoberta Menchú Tum Essays by Ricardo Falla, Francisco Goldman, and Susanne Jonas • Prose and Poetry by Humberto Ak'abal, Heather Dean, Julia Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano, and Francisco Morales Santos • Statements by Eduardo Galeano, Sebastião Salgado and William F. Schulz |
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| Domingo with his radio, one of his family's only nonessential possessions, and virtually their only link to the outside world. In 1980, soldiers came to his house and dragged away his older brother and sister. Domingo, his parents, and his two younger brothers fled that night. "Many people were killed that night in our village....Those who were not killed or burned alive fled into the mountains." Cabá, Quiché, 1993 | A Mayan ceremony at the dedication of a monument to the 177 women and children from the community of Rio Negro who were massacred by the Guatemalan army and paramilitary forces in 1982. At the reburial site, Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, 1995 | Ana holds an exploded mortar shell that the Guatemalan army fired at her community during an offensive in 1989. Communities of Population in Resistance (CPR) of the Sierra, Quiché Department, 1993 | |||||||||||||||||
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| On a Sunday morning, musicians practice before the church service in the community chapel. CPR-Sierra, Xecuxap settlement, Cabá, Quiché, 1993 | The remains of two women, a man, and a child. The remains of three others, all from the same family, had already been lifted from the grave. An army patrol massacred all seven as they fled into the mountains in August 1982. Near the village of San Francisco Javier, Nebaj, Quiché, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| During an exhumation, Doña Clara holds a photograph of her husband whose remains are being unearthed. He was fifty years old when soldiers shot him in 1982. Nebaj, Quiché, 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| "Long Live the Peace." The night before the signing of the Peace Accords, Guatemala City, December, 1996 |
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