In a major victory for human righ activists, a former Guatemalan Police chief has been found guilty for ordering the Spanish Embassy to be set on fire in 1980. 37 peasant activists and student organizers died in the fire. We will speak to Nobel Peace Prizewinner Rigoberta Menchu. Her father died in the massacre. We have been denied the truth for 35responsibility for mr. Garcia is clear and also that of all of the people that remained in the hearing, many of whom have already died, but also responsibility of the state. I think this is what makes us the most happy and due process makes us happy, too, because we have the patience to reach this moment and we are really excited. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Islamic state militants have posted a new video threatening to execute two japanese hostages. The militants demanded japan pay a 200 million ransom without 72 within 72 hours, the same amount Prime M
Charlie hebdo publishes its first issue since last weeks attacks, we look at press freedom with Reporters Without Borders. Then to nigeria. There are wildly different accounts of the numbers and youre going from 100 two 2000 and we have not been able to verify that. What is clear, one eyewitness is talking about how when he was fleeing, he was tripping on bodies the whole way. So clearly a large number of people were killed. As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in an attack by militants from boko haram in the North Eastern nigerian town of baga. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France is deploying an unprecedented 10,000 soldiers inside its own country in the wake of last weeks deadly shootings at a Kosher Grocery store and the magazine Charlie Hebdo. The soldiers will join nearly 5,000 Police Officers mobilized to guard jewish schools, train stations and other sites. France has also announced steps
[shouting] today france and israel were burying the victims of those terrorist attacks in paris in which 17 people were killed over three days of violence and the funerals took place in paris and jerusalem. Manuel valls gave a speech in parliament. Extreme measures are the only answers to an extreme situation. There will never be measures which go against the rule of law and our values. Terrorism is aimed at breaking what we are, which is a great democracy and the best answer is the law, freedom. Earlier, Francois Hollande meant with the families of the three Police Officers murdered in the rampage. They were both killed during the attack on Charlie Hebdo. The third officer was 26 years old. She was gunned down the following day and today holland laid the french medal on each of their coffins and said they had died so we could live in freedom. And of the burial, the muslim Police Officers slain by the kouachi brothers while he was guarding the offices of Charlie Hebdo here is what he h
The middle east. We will speak to Glenn Greenwald and Lisa Stampnitzky, author of disciplining terror how experts invented terrorism. then as the french magazine Charlie Hebdo publishes its first issue since last weeks attacks, we look at press freedom with Reporters Without Borders. Then to nigeria. There are wildly different accounts of the numbers and youre going from 100 two 2000 and we have not been able to verify that. What is clear, one eyewitness is talking about how when he was fleeing, he was tripping on bodies the whole way. So clearly a large number of people were killed. As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in an attack by militants from boko haram in the North Eastern nigerian town of baga. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France is deploying an unprecedented 10,000 soldiers inside its own country in the wake of last weeks deadly shootings at a Kosher Grocery store and the magazine Cha
The middle east. We will speak to Glenn Greenwald and Lisa Stampnitzky, author of disciplining terror how experts invented terrorism. then as the french magazine Charlie Hebdo publishes its first issue since last weeks attacks, we look at press freedom with Reporters Without Borders. Then to nigeria. There are wildly different accounts of the numbers and youre going from 100 two 2000 and we have not been able to verify that. What is clear, one eyewitness is talking about how when he was fleeing, he was tripping on bodies the whole way. So clearly a large number of people were killed. As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in an attack by militants from boko haram in the North Eastern nigerian town of baga. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France is deploying an unprecedented 10,000 soldiers inside its own country in the wake of last weeks deadly shootings at a Kosher Grocery store and the magazine Cha