978-1-57075-294-0 Guatemala: Never Again! The Human Rights Report
by
REMHI OGDAG
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372pp
paperback
Foreword by Thomas Quigley
Index, Photographs
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Book Description As a church, we collectively and responsibly assumed the task of breaking the silence that thousands of war victims have kept for years. We opened up the possibility for them to talk, to have their say, to tell their stories of suffering and pain, so they might feel liberated from the burden that has been weighing down on them for so many years."
With these words, Bishop Juan Gerardi, coordinator of the Human Rights Office of the Diocese of Guatemala, released an historic study of the human right abuses in Guatemala, the work of the Church's Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI). Two days later, Bishop Gerardi was himself brutally murdered.
Guatemala: Never Again! is the abridged English translation of the original 4-volume report Bishop Gerardi had overseen. It alternates graphic eyewitness testimony with conclusions about the origins, nature, and impact of the devastating violence that civil war inflicted on the people of Guatemala from the 1970's-1990's--wounds they still struggle to overcome.
"This shattering volume, done by the official institutional church in Guatemala, is indispensable . . . ."--Robert F. Drinan, S.J.
"Standing up for human rights [in Guatemala] required the greatest courage . . . It is a great act of witness by the Catholic church, and Oribs is to be congratulated for publishing this one-volume edition."--Phillip Berryman
