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Genocides, from Guatemala to Gaza
Rights Action does not lightly or casually denounce Israel’s policies and actions in Palestine. We do not lightly or casually denounce U.S. and Canadian, E.U. and Australian fully complicity and harmful “justifications”.
For decades, Rights Action has funded and supported community-led human rights and justice, land and environmental defense struggles in Guatemala and Honduras. At the same time, Rights Action has worked to expose, denounce and hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments and militaries, and North American companies and banks (including the World Bank and IADB), if and when their policies and actions contribute to, or directly cause the systemic harms and violences that the majority poor Guatemalans and Hondurans suffer from and are resisting.
While repression and violence against the populations of Guatemala and Honduras have long histories, and while the situation in Israel and Palestine has its own history, in recent times it would be the years of U.S.-backed genocides and country-wide massacres across Guatemala in the late 1970s, early 1980s, that most directly compare with the mass killing and ethnocidal violence and destruction occurring daily in Gaza since October 7.
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