Guatemala races to save 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses during armed conflict
The archive is being digitized and added to a reparations plan as officials warn that damaged files could erase evidence of past abuses.
- Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 testimony files documenting extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances before President Bernardo Arévalo leaves office in January 2028.
- Under former Presidents Jimmy Morales and Alejandro Giammattei, the National Reparations Program was largely abandoned, with Giammattei ordering its shutdown without preservation provisions.
- Archive assistant Erick Briones found "damp, piled-up boxes, incomplete, torn files," while the armed conflict killed more than 200,000 people and left 45,000 disappeared.
- Arévalo announced the Reparation and Dignity Plan for the Victims of the Armed Conflict, while a UNESCO-funded project plans to digitize the archive for universal access.
- Presidential human rights commissioner Elvin Díaz said past governments intended to "erase collective memory," though rights groups worry a future successor may not prioritize reparations.
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Guatemala races to save 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses during armed conflict
Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028.
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By SONIA PÉREZ D. CITY DE GUATEMALA (AP) — Guatemala is in a race against time to secure some 60,000 testimonies in files of victims of the internal armed conflict (1960-1996) who sought reparations for the abuses they suffered. This before the end of the government of progressive Bernardo Arévalo in [...]
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