Before The Genocide Guatemala Mayan
Guatemala is a mountainous country, especially in Central America, southern Mexico and less than half the size of England. Once emergency heart of the Mayan civilization, which flourished until the 10th century AD. When Spanish explorers conquered the region in the 16th century, the Maya have become slaves in ancient cottage. They are still the majority of poor people 12.3m Guatemala.
In the late 19th century, Guatemala was under dictatorial rule, which put the country on a map of the economy by encouraging landowners to buy and run a coffee plantation. The Roman Catholic Church is a shortage of land for this purpose, and after 30 years, America is a major investor. Powerful army and police was created to protect wealthy landowners and their business grows. The Indians, with the status of farmers and workers who have not seen anything of the wealth produced in a number of dictatorial grip.
Tags: mayan civilization, military dictator, roman catholic church, spanish explorers, wealthy landownersGenocide in Guatemala – Silent Holocaust
The Government of Guatemala, Guatemala, and the use of military force against the rebels (whose members define themselves as “killing machines”), began a systematic campaign of repression and oppression of the Maya, which they claimed that they are working on the communist coup. 2-year series of atrocities, they are sometimes called “Silent Holocaust.”
According to the 1999 UN report on the Civil War: “The perception of the army Maya society as natural allies of the guerrillas contributed to the growth and exacerbate human rights violations committed against them, indicates aggressive racist component of extreme cruelty that led to getting rid of defenseless Mayan communities weight including children, women and elderly, through a method that outraged the conscience of the civilized world of cruelty. “
Tags: communist coup, genocide in guatemala, natural allies, scorched earth policy, silent holocaustThe Herero and Namaqua Genocide
In 1904, the German territory of South West Africa, now Namibia, and German troops under the command of General Lothar von Trotha ruthlessly suppress the uprising of indigenous Herero. General von Trotha never said he wanted to exterminate the time the conflict ended four years later, between 65.000 to 100,000 Herero died “hideous tribes on the river of blood.” Many of them are in camps, some believe the pioneering work of World War II era concentration camps.
Before the genocide
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