sarahcantthinkofanythingbetter:

Hi Everyone!! I don’t know how updated you guys are on Guatemala and the human rights violations there, but please take a little bit of time to read this (even if it’s only a paragraph). The latest update is about the newest president in office (Otto Perez Molina) who was a general during the “civil armed conflict” and was both an intellectual as well as a material author during the time. He was also the general present during the signing of the peace accords, which have done nothing for the people who are still being violently displaced and the civil rights of the people living in cities. Human rights defenders are being blacklisted and targeted by the military as criminals. It’s horrifying, but true. PLEASE READ! Also if any of you can, PLEASE send this message to as many people as possible. Not many people know about what’s been happening in Guatemala and it’s terrible that the US has and still funds many of the atrocities that have occurred there. 

Not only that, but we have many human rights violators living in the US who are not being extradited back to Guatemala. Perez Molina is also trying to change Guatemalan policy on prosecuting human rights violators during the armed conflict; he wants to “forget the past” and start making Guatemala better now. I could make this post super long, so instead of me telling you more, please just read the blog and tell everyone you know about it!

Reblog this. Not because you feel pity or feel like you should, but because WE ARE ALL HUMANS AND WE ALL DESERVE OUR RIGHTS.

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