Solomin Hernandez was only 11 when soldiers stormed his village. They ransacked homes, blindfolded civilians and bludgeoned 201 innocent people to death with sledgehammers before dumping them down a 50-foot-deep well.
Hernandez remembers the bloodshed in gripping detail. He watched as state forces raped women in public squares, smashed the heads of infants and shot husbands and fathers in a brutal massacre in the Las Dos Erres township that lasted more than 12 hours on Dec. 6, 1982.
Now, almost 30 years later, Hernandez has found justice in Guatemala’s courts, where he recently testified against one of the soldiers he said slaughtered his friends and family.
“Let this case be a window to the world,” he said, fighting back tears as he addressed the courtroom. “Let everyone look through it and see the horror and sorrow that we suffer so that these atrocities never happen ever again, anywhere.” Full story...
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Hernandez remembers the bloodshed in gripping detail. He watched as state forces raped women in public squares, smashed the heads of infants and shot husbands and fathers in a brutal massacre in the Las Dos Erres township that lasted more than 12 hours on Dec. 6, 1982.
Now, almost 30 years later, Hernandez has found justice in Guatemala’s courts, where he recently testified against one of the soldiers he said slaughtered his friends and family.
“Let this case be a window to the world,” he said, fighting back tears as he addressed the courtroom. “Let everyone look through it and see the horror and sorrow that we suffer so that these atrocities never happen ever again, anywhere.” Full story...
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