It wasnt him but thats the only way he was ever mentioned again. Otherwise the subject was to boo. It is british and youre going to get us to believe those were the worst years of the civil war which devastated the country the police and the army were fighting against the Guerillas Thousands of people were abducted Forty Five Thousand around the whole country Forty Five Thousand and those are just the ones who disappeared but if another Two Hundred Thousand died the population of quite a model was Eight Million at the time they needed pontiff to unity and. It was the most brutal repression of a people ever endured in Latin America at the moment. Already
doing as you were here a lot back then i already see the reaction in the media yes with my family usually with my brother to see whether our Brother Rubin was amongst the bodies that were brought here marked double x. In other words the nameless book at the door a lot of people here and look to the lot of bodies of a more cohesive your most often run into other relatives especially in law being in a cemetery he. Is where most of the murder victims were taken gavia necessary not. At all he recognized many of the dead we see and then we also know one thing it was so painful i came for about six months and then could no longer bear to look at the terrible things they had done to people some of the victims had cuts on their feet cut so fine they were probably made with a razor blade in the house or maybe less. Salt in
lemon had been rubbed into the womb see this it was horrifying send. Me more and also. The flame the sunan the most harrowing thing of all though im unable to get it out of my head was a couple. They were said to be engaged. Navios it was a gal. They were students at San Carlos University and she was pregnant but it is that im better at seeing him babble. I downloaded him somebody told us that when they were found the babys head was in its mothers stomach that they knew more. Then two of them being. With Solidarity Group of Acquirement Two or was founded around then the name means mutual aid we met at the morgue each of us alone to face the atrocities and fear we
needed one another in this group we women tried in our own way to do something to see our missing fathers brothers sons and husbands again but if you. Didnt seem clear who knew the gentle since the founding of our organization on june the fifth One Thousand Nine Hundred Four we have been calling on the transitional Military Government to provide information on the whereabouts of hundreds and hundreds of guatemalan citizens. Which are those questions many of whom were undoubtedly abducted under the regime of gen me if Ya Victorias Me here. Please dont go in what we have experienced and attempted since then defies description the reaction from government spokespersons to questions regarding all those who have disappeared is disrespectful and deplorable with we cannot accept their contemptuous and completely improbable responses. Reminding
a guerrilla or not the day after day more and more people came to our poor much well and asked for help in their search for relatives who had disappeared. One lawyer got most of us and we first came here ten years ago this was a horrible place Dirt Floor Pitch Black we put the mites in and the individual rooms were shocking they were small. And had no lighter windows. On the doors were just grills. Not industrial grills. But homemade want to. Hear and even see how it was played on the grill show that Political Prisoners were kept here but what is also shocking is that over the last ten years we have found no indication whatsoever of someone having
survived captivity here in la ive not a single person. To move this but we learned later that there were a lot of these secret prisons in which the police and army had people disappear but when we questioned them they denied it. They look
at but what we know very little about what happened in these places when news. When this and this when De Santis All was held at this Police Station which still exists today. Now we demand. The last time i saw how it was on march the eighth One Thousand Nine Hundred full International Womens day now that im heading one dollar plus hundred hours when i go. Of soldiers burst into our apartment and forced My Brother And Me to watch as they talked shit. Out of balance i am less like i dont know. They pulled out her fingernails one by one with pliers. Only gals have it and we had to watch. Is a sunless not matter what a scale thing really those are my last memories of when they seized my mother they
also arrested My Brother And Me and took us to the National Police department on the avenue del boulevard and then the torture continued we was subjected to electric shocks them being on the new lessons in the. Sinners happily we had to watch as our mother was also tortured in the same way we mostly house her lack. Of Money Madeleine Enemies the last words she was able to say to was were be strong be strong where sampling. In your mature became increasingly important journalists abroad began to take an interest in us and our struggle in the cause of those who had disappeared but if you can in the end even general may he have it taught us what amount of Military Dictator had to receive us back is represented in the barbaric repression unleashed by the army and other organizations no one would save the general began to
officially accuse a poor motto. Is all written in english and sent from washington by one of these international totalitarian organizations be an Amnesty International forum or just watch they are the ones who live you know the Mutual Support Group what do you do when i very seldom their instructions from what you do if yeah im used to the net where she is in the middle watch ways you can see what good is a little bit of an interest in it gets used in i am really dealing with when i pulled the First One Hundred eighty five. Something happened which we could all feel good. To lose a leader of a poor moto Character Gomas Carlito was murdered. Literally off of a counter his tongue the message was clear. And use a moment of his own that most but the devil we knew then that we were not safe something
could happen to us at any time i think it was at the cemetery that rosario took the megaphone and said that She Wasnt Afraid that she would defy head towards killers yearly in his arms yamamotos i was also says the most to me im not about she was truly courageous a real fighter but we were afraid i still remember how we talked about it short of the oh god now its our turn what are we going to do to you at last about us what about your idea of us are rushing to the q. B. Comply as a mother you must have been worried about me me i have visibility and i think upon the in One Thousand Nine Hundred five things got steadily worse i wanted to take you to your grandfathers. It was a route i drove every day that particular day on our way there i saw three cars and ten or eleven armed men on the hill leading to less precise ease when suddenly they pointed to me got into their cars and came after me i drove faster and faster i
turned left and right and wherever possible i went down narrow streets when i arrived fortunately your grandfather was standing by the gate and this is the only i shouted at him to open up which the poor chap did immediately that i drove in and right to the back where he checked to see i was so scared that held you tight got out of the car and hid in the bedroom moments and in a matter of him if he has been there what about you hear me now they are going to kill us i thought and yet i had promised your father that i would look after you just in the end. The moment the place. Where. We seemed not to be a winning we seemed to be losing after all we had already lost. Back then and the week before easter weve still been consoling and encouraging one another then already called me to say that rosario had disappeared but is. Even being stabbed
or that the little boy had diarrhea and so she had gone to buy some nappies the child and her brother were in the car with her. Is in a lot on the this is where the alleged accident happened but there was no accident or what really happened is that they murdered rosario her child and her brother. They tortured the infant horribly they burnt him and ripped out his fingernails and he was just a two year old little boy absolutely barbaric. And they tortured rosarios brother not to mention rosario herself they really made them suffer all three of them. So rosarios death was a clear direct message to them. It was a serious blow to the entire Solidarity Group many of us went into hiding i hid in
order to protect you but each one of us only wanted to get somewhere safe after rosarios death a poor young which will is no longer the same we fought on or at least we tried to but not like we had done before still despite everything we did try me. Last year is coming this is where his bed was or your only after it happened i spent a lot of time here i knelt and said the rosary. All i wanted was for my son to be alive for him not to be tortured while here you know i had the feeling that the only way i could endure it all was by opening my heart to the lord and the virgin mary and never stopped believing not even when they told me my son would not be coming back but until his body is found i said there is still hope surely with
the new technology thats available they must be able to find something something that will help me like a sign perhaps or a word it would be a day passes without me asking mr godly when i can i go out into the yard or two or three in the morning and pray to the lord please give me an answer i cant endure your silence any longer please look at me i feel im going to cry again but the tears never come give me an answer lord you give others an answer why not me all i want is for my son to have a home to live in a roof over his head a bed where he can rest and a table he can sit and eat in a minute her own nickel made. You finish a piggy we have to cling to Little Things like photographs. You
know because their disappearance is an attempt to obliterate them as though they had never existed as though there had never been people who wanted to change this country i dont believe people would say that it seems like its impossible to change it really and its an attempt at obliteration which extends into their private lives and into ours and to those of the survivors and to those of their relatives even into the memories we perhaps still have of them. Who what were they like how do they live before someone tried to obliterate them. Any better than this before we had a Special Relationship with our father he was
a tall man. I thought. It was time which was we all i liked his moustache his beard he was big and had adult complection i got my complexion from him and. When they adopted my father murdered him i was in a State Of Shock for a whole year. Its like its hard to describe the has always been this hand that youve been able to hold on and suddenly its taken away from you that it was an incredible shock when that hand was taken away jenna and even today i am in need of my fathers advice and i need orientation and i still need things that no one else can give me and if you even bless. Youve been so can you but i believe that my father finds a million ways and moments to be with me he companies me along my path used to come
in. And if you can i mean it seemed like there was nothing more we could do it was as if our every attempt to learn something about those who disappeared hit a wall of silence until Nine Hundred Ninety nine that is when the deity or merely tapped the Military Log Book appeared. In the log book league guatemalas military Secret Service recorded information on people who between Nine Hundred Eighty Three and One Thousand Nine Hundred five under general asco home beto makiya victorious were arrested in abducted by State Officials in iraq in One Thousand Nine Hundred nine member of the army stole this
list from the Army Archives and handed it over to a civilian he didnt give the most important part of the military logbook consists of a record of state activities it contains the names of One Hundred Eighty Three persons along with the date and location of their abduction another date indicates the day on which the detainee was moved to a. Another secret Service Facility or was released in most cases the follows the code Three Hundred or say a lowly able poncho poncho took him away that meant death or execution must be apart from our notice is the militant is the only document which proves that the abductions with the work of the army in the police force here. Give them a part of the record is also devoted to the aquarium were told it contains the names of those relatives of the leaders of our group who disappeared the result is husband my brother. Of failures brother powerless father. Unable or whatever the purpose of this code is to dehumanize them to deprive them of any form of selfdetermination thats why codes were used in the local it was probably the same for every family when the newspaper published the list of names my mother immediately took me somewhere else the old fear had returned yet a book about his illness and the star norm is a video link with only zero mean well need to police the list was published in The Sunday Edition of a national newspaper. On the i mean. Someone came to our house and said look your husbands name is in the paper. With a c m it does so over me up with the newspapers were all tucked away in our house my family just didnt want to know my father was the only one who looked at the list but then it was get rid of it were not going to discuss the matter at all it was the act on the one hand there was pain anguish and tears on the other hand
though we were glad that at long last we were learning something about our Family Members whether we might discover their mortal remains or we even find out they were still alive. The reading of the race the horse and the one. Good thing in our case was that fathers photograph and his personal details were printed in the news. Paperless we relatives finally knew for certain something that wed always known but had never wanted to accept at least not until we saw the body in front of us from global. Or. Someone from the military who told my parents i didnt see him myself that when they began to torture him they not all his teeth out with a hammer that is how i know that they tortured him for a long time to try and extract information from him the man said they only stopped when their victims were nothing more than a vestige of a human being the last thing they did was gouge their eyes out. When we read said
gios name in the newspaper we knew it was time to abandon all hope since then we only refer to them as devils murderers and swine. The else. Who sees it. It is of course painful to look through the logbook its pages demonstrate how much these people who wanted to change the country suffered. But it is also about our relatives and about revealing parts of our history like Little Fidelis is a lot of money is better than the store and at the same time we have first hand proof in the form of a document we can take to a judge and say here is the proof what more do you need. To get. Thanks to the diorio merely town and we were able to bring the first legal actions but the military denied everything and the judges were still afraid not one person
was found guilty but then in Two Thousand And Five an incredibly important discovery was made when i left on the pier to be in the theater the Public Prosecutors Office for human rights decided to have this building investigated and delegation arrived and came down here just like we were doing when he glanced up at the windows a deliberate as if went as saw stacks of documents piled up thousands and thousands of them and when he asked the state employee responsible for them what they were its the Police Archives she said she was up on the scene. Yes. Its all natural gas well it was a lucky break and an unbelievably important one for so many years we had had no idea this is where the National Police archive was hidden or what it was a key moment because it marked the start of this story but they could yet when the Peace Treaties were signs theyd also denied that an archive even existed. Times. Because of all of it back then when the government was toppled they used this building as a secret prison that this to. Him was saying on trial in the archives we found more than six thousand documents which relate