In late March, on my first day back in Guatemala after a couple months a friend called and said hurry come to Tribunales...ex-paramilitary soldiers are on trial for a massacre. So I hoped in a cab and rushed over there. I knew a little about Dos Erres. There are so many stories from the war. It is estimated that about 626 separate massacres during the 36-year civil war that killed about 200,000 people.
I nearly missed this story by This American Life which compelled me to look back at my trial pictures. I've listened to the story three times...its unbelievable. The story goes: "In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people. Thirty years later, a Guatemalan living in the US got a phone call from a woman who told him that two boys had been abducted during the massacre -- and he was one of them."
Please have a listen!
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