Rio Negro

Guatemala: Justice For The Chixoy Dam – Rio Negro Massacres

  Public Hearing before the Inter American Court on Human Rights
San José, Costa Rica

CASE: Guatemala – Río Negro / Chixoy Dam Massacres

ADIVIMA — ASOCIACION PARA EL DESARROLLO INTEGRAL DE LAS VICTIMAS DE LA VIOLENCIA EN LAS VERAPACES MAYA ACHI) [Association for the Comprehensive Development of the Maya Achi Victims of Violence in Alta and Baja Verapaz]

COMMUNICATES THE FOLLOWING:

From 1980 to 1985, using a scorched earth policy, those who governed Guatemala, Fernando Romeo Lucas García and General José Efraín Ríos Montt carried out acts of genocide against the Maya Achi civilian population in the Rio Negro village in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. With the deployment of the national armed forces and the civil self-defense patrols from the Xococ village (in the same municipality), they sought to annihilate the civilian population in the village of Rio Negro. http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15431:guatemala-justice-for-the-chixoy-dam-rio-negro-massacres&catid=30&Itemid=63