Social Injustice

1. Social Injustice Genocide By: Zachary Harmon

2. What is Genocide? Who does this type of social injustice really affect? • Genocide is the killing of a large group of people • This affects all people

3. What was the incident you researched? Describe the incident and some facts including who was involved? • I researched an article from SibyllaBrodzinsky called Guatemalan who helped build a genocide case against ex-dictator was survivor, too • The incident was about a case that focused on the Ixil ethnic group (Maya people indigenous to Guatemalan)

4. Facts • At least 1,771 were executed or disappeared during his 17-month reign (never said who) • February 1982 the army burned down villages in the region of Ixcan near the Mexico border • They hid in a hut his father built in the forest with his family (mother, father, brother, sisters, grandmother, and three cousins) • Everyone died but father, brother, and Canil • Canil is a legal advisor with the Human Rights Legal Action Centor {CALDH}

5. What led up to the incident? • The article never said what led up to it to the incident

6. What were the results of the incident? How was the incident handled and what were the consequences? • The results of the incident was about 200,000 killed. • There was nothing people could have done to stop this at this time period • They got away with the crimes they commited • In 1994 a humans rights organization started to document all the human right abuses

7. Why was the topic interesting to you? What made the incident and/or personal narrative stand out to you • You don’t hear about these mass murders in everyday life and I wanted to read it • The thing that made it stand out is how the government was killing these people or giving the army orders to burn down villages