“Guatemalan commanders referred to genocide as “Palestinization” of Mayan population” (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges discussion with Jennifer Harbury about genocides in Guatemala and Palestine
Israel Also Sponsored a Genocide in Guatemala
The Chris Hedges Report, August 9, 2025
The Conversation article about genocides in Indonesia, Guatemala, Yemen, Palestine
Gaza isn’t the first time US officials have downplayed atrocities by American-backed regimes – genocide scholars found similar strategies used from East Timor to Guatemala to Yemen
By Jeff Bachman & Esther Brito Ruiz, TheConversation, August 7, 2025
Since 1994, Rights Action has helped document and denounce the role of “the West” - led by the U.S., with allies Britain, France, Israel, Germany & then military regimes in Chile, Argentina, Colombia - in supporting and legitimizing genocide in four Mayan regions of Guatemala, 1978-1983.
Genocide of Maya Achi people: Since 1994, Rights Action has supported a wide range of community-led projects in the Maya Achi region of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, working directly with victim-survivors of the genocide planned and carried out there.
Archive of Chixoy Dam/Rio Negro Massacres
Cashing in on genocide
Our 2021 book TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala documents how the Canadian-led, global mining industry led a renewed weave of mining investment in Guatemala soon after the genocides.
Change media sources
Rights Action urges everyone to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend daily news by Al Jazeera news, Democracy Now, The Real News, etc.
We recommend getting involved with / following news feeds of
Breaking the Silence, Israel: https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il
Palestinian Youth Movement: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: https://x.com/FranceskAlbs
Double Down News: https://www.doubledown.news
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East: https://www.cjpme.org
Jewish Voices for Peace (U.S.): https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Independent Jewish Voices (Canada): https://www.ijvcanada.org
If Not Now (U.S.): https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/
If Not Now (Cda): https://www.ifnotnow.ca/
BDS Movement: https://bdsmovement.net
972 Magazine, https://www.972mag.com/
Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: https://euromedmonitor.org/en
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca
CODEPINK: https://twitter.com/codepink
World BEYOND War Canada: https://worldbeyondwar.org/canada