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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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<The stench of death>
<Canada's murdered women and girls.>
Between 8 Nov 2021 and 17 Feb 2022 AL Jazeera published a serial of
articles about femicides of Canadian Indigenous women and girls of which each word is so
heartbreaking that it takes a lot of courage to read the whole serial. Still I challenge you to do so! I divided it according to the
number of articles and quoted from them ending with a read more URL. All
articles were written by Brandi Morin (1 to 10) except the last one
(11th.) written by an Al Jazeera team:
Related:
Al Jazeera
25 Jan 2022
By Jeff Abbott
<<Guatemala: Indigenous women celebrate ruling on sexual violence
Indigenous women and supporters welcome court ruling that found
ex-paramilitaries guilty of rape, abuse during conflict.
Guatemala City, Guatemala – Survivors of Guatemala’s decades-long armed
conflict have welcomed a Guatemalan court ruling that found five former
paramilitary patrolmen guilty of raping and sexually abusing Indigenous
women during the war. Judges Yassmin Barrios and Gelvi Sical on Monday
ruled that 36 Indigenous Maya Achi women had been subjected to domestic
slavery, sexual violence and rape during the 36-year conflict, which
pitted the Guatemalan military against leftist forces from 1960 to 1996.
The court sentenced five former members of the so-called <Civil
Self-Defence Patrols> paramilitary group to 30 years in prison for
crimes that took place in the early 1980s. The Indigenous Mayan Achi
women plaintiffs in the case are from villages around the municipality
of Rabinal in Baja Verapaz department, about 176km (109 miles) from the
capital, Guatemala City.
They spent years demanding justice for crimes committed during the
conflict, which saw the Guatemalan government and military mobilise
paramilitaries in their fight against leftist fighters in rural
communities – and said this week’s ruling is a key step in the path to
justice. <I feel happy,> Pedrina Lopez, a 51-year-old Indigenous Maya
Achi survivor and one of the plaintiffs in the case, told Al Jazeera
outside the court in Guatemala City before the sentences were handed
down. Lopez was only 12 when she was taken and raped by the paramilitary
patrolmen in her village in the early 1980s. <We did it,> she said,
about the ruling. <We do not want what happened to us to ever happen
again.>
Fight for justice. Lopez and the other women involved in the case faced
an uphill battle in their quest for justice. The court’s decision came
11 years after they first began to organise to seek justice. That was
when lawyers in Rabinal began to find evidence of sexual violence
through local women’s accounts of what had happened. The court did not
accept the case on multiple occasions, and in 2019, the accused were set
free after Judge Claudette Dominguez ruled that she <did not believe>
the testimonies. But the case advanced after the judiciary was changed
upon appeal. The Indigenous women had lived with their trauma for
decades – even after the Guatemalan government and leftist forces from
the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity signed a peace deal in
December 1996 to end the fighting.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/25/guatemala-indigenous-women-celebrate-ruling-sexual-violence
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