“Guatemalan commanders referred to genocide as “Palestinization” of Mayan population” (Chris Hedges)

Genocide as policy

Rights Action shares this information to broaden understanding of what countries of “the West” support and legitimize. There should be no surprise that the U.S., Canada and the West are support and legitimizing Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

Since 1994, Rights Action has helped document and denounce the role of “the West” - led by the U.S., with allies Britain, France, Israel, Germany & then military regimes in Chile, Argentina, Colombia - in supporting and legitimizing genocide in four Mayan regions of Guatemala, 1978-1983.

Genocide of Maya Achi people: Since 1994, Rights Action has supported a wide range of community-led projects in the Maya Achi region of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, working directly with victim-survivors of the genocide planned and carried out there.
Archive of Chixoy Dam/Rio Negro Massacres

Cashing in on genocide

Our 2021 book TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala documents how the Canadian-led, global mining industry led a renewed weave of mining investment in Guatemala soon after the genocides.

Change media sources

Rights Action urges everyone to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend daily news by Al Jazeera news, Democracy Now, The Real News, etc.

We recommend getting involved with / following news feeds of

• Breaking the Silence, Israel: https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il
• Palestinian Youth Movement: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com
• Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: https://x.com/FranceskAlbs
• Double Down News: https://www.doubledown.news
• Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East: https://www.cjpme.org
• Jewish Voices for Peace (U.S.): https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
• Independent Jewish Voices (Canada): https://www.ijvcanada.org
• If Not Now (U.S.): https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/
• If Not Now (Cda): https://www.ifnotnow.ca/
• BDS Movement: https://bdsmovement.net
• 972 Magazine, https://www.972mag.com/
• Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk
• Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: https://euromedmonitor.org/en
• Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca 
• CODEPINK: https://twitter.com/codepink
• World BEYOND War Canada: https://worldbeyondwar.org/canada 

Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)

To support land and environmental defenders, and human rights, justice and democracy defense struggles in Honduras and Guatemala, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:

• U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
• Canada: Box 82858, RPO Cabbagetown Toronto, ON, M5A 3Y2

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Resolution of landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits

TESTIMONIO–Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell (Between The Lines, 2021)

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