Guatemala War on Indigenous Women

Disambiguation · Dec 14, 2016

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This interpreter is helping get justice for indigenous women raped and tortured in Guatemala’s civil war

Some 200,000 people were killed in that war, many more tortured and raped. In recent years, the country has been reckoning with those atrocities and trying to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes.

Justice has been slow, but Guatemalans still see a victory in just having the trials take place not least because of the way women have come forward to tell their stories — especially indigenous women.

In her store in Nebaj, in the Guatemalan highlands, Feliciana Bernal surrounds herself these days with colorful woven scarves and clothing.

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