Indigenous survivors pursue justice at genocide trial in Guatemala | Crimes Against Humanity News

Warning: This article contains details of violence that may be upsetting.
Guatemala City, Guatemala – Jesus Tecu remembers wrapping his little brother in his arms in an attempt to protect the two-year-old from the horrors unfolding around them.
It was March 13, 1982, and their village of Rio Negro — a Maya Achi community situated along a river in central Guatemala — was under attack. Guatemala was in the midst of a grisly civil war, and army and paramilitary forces had been stalking the countryside, razing Indigenous villages to the ground.
Already, Tecu’s parents had been among…