Annotated Bibliography
Oglesby, Elizabeth. "Guatemalan Genocide." Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences, ABC-CLIO, 2016, moderngenocide.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1764507. Accessed 11 Sept. 2016. Elizabeth Oglesby suggests that the Guatemalan Civil War led directly to the Guatemalan genocide. She argues that the government started the genocide to control protest and stop guerilla movement. In addition, Oglesby states that the Spanish colonialism brought destructive changes to the Maya, resulting in protest. Furthermore, in the article it is suggested that the Guatemalan Army launched a scorched earth counterinsurgency to stop the guerrillas, and many of the Mayans were believed to be supporting the guerrillas. Also the government …show more content…
For example there was a child, Jesus Tacu, who was waiting at home for his parents to come greet him, but they never came. The Anthropology foundation is trying to collect over one hundred testimonies to better understand the events that occurred at this time. Furthermore, in the video a reporter said “The military came in and separated the villages in groups and made one group kill the other. The children, they had to witness everything. Many of the survivors we have interviewed were kids at the time, and they described the pain of seeing their families, their mothers raped or their sisters killed.” This video is heavily opinion based and is biased towards the victims. This video will be useful in understanding both sides of the genocide and will aid in contrasting the point of views between the government and the …show more content…
Department of State official, this article is very much unbiased, as it is a report from an outside source from Guatemala. The account describes how the kidnappings in the country were mostly carried out by Guatemala’s government in order to interrogate the victims, mostly male Indians, about their actions and kill them later. However, the U.S. State Department had admitted in the statement that they did not have very accurate data on Guatemala’s human rights conditions. The information gathered may not be credible; nevertheless, an outside viewpoint of the situations in Guatemala is still helpful with its unprejudiced
Oglesby, Elizabeth. "Guatemalan Genocide." Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences, ABC-CLIO, 2016, moderngenocide.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1764507. Accessed 11 Sept. 2016. Elizabeth Oglesby suggests that the Guatemalan Civil War led directly to the Guatemalan genocide. She argues that the government started the genocide to control protest and stop guerilla movement. In addition, Oglesby states that the Spanish colonialism brought destructive changes to the Maya, resulting in protest. Furthermore, in the article it is suggested that the Guatemalan Army launched a scorched earth counterinsurgency to stop the guerrillas, and many of the Mayans were believed to be supporting the guerrillas. Also the government …show more content…
For example there was a child, Jesus Tacu, who was waiting at home for his parents to come greet him, but they never came. The Anthropology foundation is trying to collect over one hundred testimonies to better understand the events that occurred at this time. Furthermore, in the video a reporter said “The military came in and separated the villages in groups and made one group kill the other. The children, they had to witness everything. Many of the survivors we have interviewed were kids at the time, and they described the pain of seeing their families, their mothers raped or their sisters killed.” This video is heavily opinion based and is biased towards the victims. This video will be useful in understanding both sides of the genocide and will aid in contrasting the point of views between the government and the …show more content…
Department of State official, this article is very much unbiased, as it is a report from an outside source from Guatemala. The account describes how the kidnappings in the country were mostly carried out by Guatemala’s government in order to interrogate the victims, mostly male Indians, about their actions and kill them later. However, the U.S. State Department had admitted in the statement that they did not have very accurate data on Guatemala’s human rights conditions. The information gathered may not be credible; nevertheless, an outside viewpoint of the situations in Guatemala is still helpful with its unprejudiced