A Right to Justice - A Video on the Guatemalan Genocide

| On March 13, 1982, 177 women and children from the Mayan village of Rio Negro, Guatemala, were tortured, raped, and massacred by the Guatemalan army and army-led civil patrol groups. Ten year-old Jesus Tecu Osorio witnessed and survived the murders of his family and neighbors, only to be enslaved as a servant for three years in the home of one of the killers. Jesus eventually escaped and went on to win the Reebok Human Rights Award for his tireless work to bring the guilty to justice. This short video describes the events in the context of Guatemala’s brutal civil war and the subsequent struggle of the indigenous Maya Achi people to have the truth of the genocide revealed, to mourn, and to seek justice for the victims. Produced by Jesus Tecu Osorio / WITNESS Dates: 2000 / 2001 Language: English / Spanish