Guatemala's REMHI Project: Memory From Below: Article Analysis

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The article "Guatemala's REMHI Project: Memory from Below," by Kathy Ogle, describes the project and its dangerous nature. Ogle first explains that the REMHI Project is a series of documents detailing humans rights violations that took place during the Guatemalan civil war by the hands of the military and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity. Ogle gives us reasons why the REMHI Project poses a real threat to the people involved in it. One of the reasons is that this report puts in evidence some of the people who were directly responsible for some of the atrocities that were committed, including police, military and paramilitary members. The last reason given for the violence that followed the publication of the REMHI Project, is that

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