The United States' obsession with preventing the spread of communism across the globe and it's getting a foothold close to home, such as in Central and South America
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Over 200,000 Mayans died caused by the scorched earth counterinsurgency program in Guatemala in 1980. 440 villages were destroyed and 200,000 were left parentless and 80,000 women left husbandless. 1 million people were displaced
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CAUSED...
- began a systematic campaign of repressions and suppression against the Mayan Indians
- Their 2-year series of atrocities is sometimes called 'The Silent Holocaust'
- if they didn't escape to become hunted refugees, they were brutally murdered; others were forced to watch, and sometimes to take part
- Children were usually beaten against walls, or thrown alive into pits where the bodies of adults were later thrown; they were also tortured and raped
- The wombs of pregnant women were cut open
- 'The White Hand' or 'Eye for an Eye' terrorised the country and contributed to the deliberate strategy of psychological warfare and intimidation
- At the end of the 19th century Guatemala came under the rule of a dictator who put his country on the economic map by encouraging landowners to buy and run coffee plantations
who are they
By: Mone't Dubois
Who Are They
Who are they to come in our village and take our peace
who are they to strip our freedom from us
who are they to beat, rape, and kill us
who are they to make us victims
who are they to kill our joy
who are they to take away our family
who are they
By: Mone't Dubois
Who Are They
Who are they to come in our village and take our peace
who are they to strip our freedom from us
who are they to beat, rape, and kill us
who are they to make us victims
who are they to kill our joy
who are they to take away our family
who are they
Did I Have A Choice
By: Mone't Dubois
Did i have to kill those poor innocent children?
Did i have to separate their families?
Should i have died with them?
Could i have stopped this horrible khaos?
Could i have refused orders from my boss?
Did i have a choose?
By: Mone't Dubois
Did i have to kill those poor innocent children?
Did i have to separate their families?
Should i have died with them?
Could i have stopped this horrible khaos?
Could i have refused orders from my boss?
Did i have a choose?