I would bet anything, anything, that these women would have rather been killed outright than to have to cook and clean for these monsters, and also raped, who had also killed the men, children, old people in their villages.


Please consider posting it in LBN. I'm certain so many people need to know about this. It adds even more depth to the already hideous history of the US-supported government death squads in their genocidal rampages against the Mayan people.


Thank you for breaking this story here.

Guatemala military sexual violence trial starts
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A trial has begun in Guatemala of two ex-military officers for human rights abuses against indigenous women during the country's long armed conflict.

Francisco Reyes and Heriberto Valdez are accused of allowing the rape and abuse of 11 women at the Sepur Zarco military base in the 1980s.

The UN says rape was used as a weapon of war by the Guatemalan military.

Such an offence has never before been tried in the country where the crimes occurred.

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35468034

Decades After They Were Forced To Be Sex Slaves, These Women Are Fighting Back

by Beenish Ahmed Feb 2, 2016 10:49 am

In 1982, a group of Mayan men in the small Guatemalan village of Sepur Zarco filed for legal titles to win rights to the land they had famed and lived on for years. They were abducted by the military.

A few weeks later, the soldiers came for their wives. After burning down their houses and crops, and stealing their belongings, the soldiers forced 11 women to live in shacks outside a nearby military base. For the next 10 months, they were forced to cook, clean, and submit to rape for shifts of 12 hours at a time. Four of the women fled into the mountains only to see their children die in the extreme conditions. The others remained in captivity for the next six years.

Now, 30 years later, the women — who are now in their 70s and 80s — are having their day in court. One of them has died since they initially recorded their testimonies in 2012.

On Monday, the women gathered in a Guatemalan court to seek justice against two of their abusers. Esteelmer Reyes Girón, a former base commander, and former regional military commissioner Heriberto Valdez Asij, are accused of crimes against humanity perpetrated during the country’s bloody 36-year civil war.

More:
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/02/02/3745014/guatemala-sexual-slavery/