Guate: Rios Montt genocide trial / 2nd day of conclusions, Prosecution wraps up

[Catherina]

Rios Montt Trial ‏@RiosMonttTrial 55m

- Perez: It is important to clarify that this case is transcendental for the country – for those who agree and for those who disagree.

- Perez: Because Guatemalan society is for the very first time speaking clearly about the atrocities that were committed.

NISGUA ‏@NISGUA_Guate 54m

- EP (Perez): I speak of the values that #RiosMontt spoke of every Sunday. He spoke of them but did not practice them.

- EP speaks of a ltr written by a GUA soldier explaining errors of the military, "a failure of ethics, basic values".

Rios Montt Trial ‏@RiosMonttTrial 52m

They killed defenseless children, women, and elderly. We lost our values – values that were preached every Sunday but were not practiced.

NISGUA ‏@NISGUA_Guate 53m

- EP: This has been and is a Guatemalan tragedy. #GenocideGT

- EP: In dept of Quiche more than 300 massacres. The affected areas were particularly the Ixil and Ixcán. #GenocideGT

- EP: The military of GUA, the mil doctrine called it the Ixil triangle: Nebaj, Cotazl, Chajul.

- EP: #Genocide has a process of gestation. The seed of discrimination and racism is important to understand.

- EP: They came to tell you of horrifying terror, a level of terror that would horrify any human being. The evidence affirms these stories.

Rios Montt Trial ‏@RiosMonttTrial 47m

Perez: And they came to recount their living stories – shocking stories that would terrorize any human being. #Riosmontt #GenocidioGT

NISGUA ‏@NISGUA_Guate 47m

- EP explains the military understood 100% of the Ixil civil pop as a support base for the guerilla, as was explained yesterday.

- EP: It’s important to remember, what are the objectives of the plans, campaigns? To eliminate, annihilate, destroy

- EP: The essence of the Ixil group is to be Ixil & they were attacked for being Ixil.

Rios Montt Trial ‏@RiosMonttTrial 43m

Perez: We can’t speak of isolated incidents, of errors, when these are all part of a pattern.