----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:34 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] fwd: Guatemala Genocide STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:51:22 From: "Claudia K. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:27:11 -0700 From: Vasu Murti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: Guatemala --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Common Courage Political Literacy Course" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Guatemala Common Courage Political Literacy Course - http://www.commoncouragepress.com A [UN-sponsored] truth commission report has concluded that the United States gave money and training to a Guatemalan military that committed acts of genocide against the Mayan people during the most brutal armed conflict in Latin America, Guatemalas 36-year civil war [19601996]. The report of the independent Historical Clarification Commission, which was released on Thursday, contradicts years of official denial about the torture, kidnapping and execution of thousands of civilians in a war that the commission estimated killed more than 200,000 Guatemalans. --New York Times, February 26, 1999 The massacres that eliminated entire Mayan villages are neither perfidious allegations nor figments of the imagination, but an authentic chapter in Guatemalas history. --Historical Clarification Commission Guatemala, Memory of Silence, February 1999 The commissions investigations demonstrate that until the mid-1980s, the United States Government and U.S. private companies exercised pressure to maintain the countrys archaic and unjust socio-economic structure. In addition, the United States Government, through its constituent structures, including the Central Intelligence Agency, lent direct and indirect support to some illegal state operations. --Christian Tomuschat, coordinator of the Historical Clarification Commission The commission listed the American training of the officer corps in counter-insurgency techniques [at Ft. Benning] as a key factor which had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation.. --New York Times, February 26, 1999 ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- This material is compiled in David McGowan's, "Derailing Democracy," now available from Common Courage Press at http://www.commoncouragepress.com/mcgowan_derailing.html Also read: Searching for Everardo, by Jennifer Harbury: www.commoncouragepress.com/harbury_everardo.html Bridge of Courage, by Jennifer Harbury: www.commoncouragepress.com/harbury_courage.html Killing Hope, William Blum: www.commoncouragepress.com/blum_killing.html This is the free Political Literacy Course from Common Courage Press: A backbone of facts to stand up to spineless power. To subscribe (or unsubscribe) for free: http://www.commoncouragepress.com Feedback/Title suggestions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Missed any? Course archive: http://www.commoncouragepress.com/course.html YES! This course is partly advertising for books. But it's also intended as political fertilizer: feel free to spread it around! ================================== Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' Free Mumia Abu Jamal~Free All Political Prisoners~End the Drug War! Stop the US Bombing of Vieques & use of depleted uranium! to subscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pray for the Dine'h and traditional Hopi at Big Mountain, AZ, USA. http://members.xoom.com/senaa ..................................... UN draft declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 10: "Indigenous Peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocations shall take place without the free and in- formed consent of the Indigenous Peoples concerned ....(...)........." >See the video "Vanishing Prayers" at: http://www.freespeech.org/senaa< ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement: Workstation with Monitor under $800! So, you just heard that you need to add how many new workstations by the end of next week? Check out the bundle below. It includes everything you need to get everyone up and running quickly. http://www.listbot.com/links/cdw5
