{"id":52,"date":"2008-11-10T04:51:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T04:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=52"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:29","slug":"seeking-justice-and-digging-up-bones-the-plight-of-mayan-survivors-in-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2008\/11\/10\/seeking-justice-and-digging-up-bones-the-plight-of-mayan-survivors-in-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Justice and Digging Up Bones: The Plight of Mayan Survivors in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seeking Justice and Digging Up Bones: The Plight of Mayan Survivors in  Guatemala<\/p>\n<p><\/strong> <strong class=\"moz-txt-star\">A Talk by Manuel Calel Morales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 17, 2008<\/p>\n<p>7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kohlberg 115<\/p>\n<p>In Guatemala, anthropologists and villagers are uncovering the past.  They unearth secret graves containing remains of victims of the mass  murders carried out by Guatemala???? military and death squads (backed by  the U.S. military). Manuel Calel Morales is a villager from El Quich?\u00ce?.  After serving against his will in the Guatemalan Army, Calel Morales  became a human rights activist, a mass grave finder, and a community  leader. He directs the K????malb???? Rech Tinamit Ixium Ulew, a group  seeking justice for the survivors of the massacres.<\/p>\n<p>The Guatemalan Human Rights Commission, based in Washington, DC, invited  Calel Morales to conduct a speaking tour to inform the public about the  plight of so many. Calel Morales has also spoken before the U.S.  Congress and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by: Forum for Free Speech, Latin American Studies, the Lang  Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Peace and Conflict Studies,  and the Provost&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Justice and Digging Up Bones: The Plight of Mayan Survivors in Guatemala A Talk by Manuel Calel Morales Monday, November 17, 2008 7:00 p.m. Kohlberg 115 In Guatemala, anthropologists and villagers are uncovering the past. They unearth secret graves containing remains of victims of the mass murders carried out by Guatemala???? military and death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2008\/11\/10\/seeking-justice-and-digging-up-bones-the-plight-of-mayan-survivors-in-guatemala\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seeking Justice and Digging Up Bones: The Plight of Mayan Survivors in Guatemala<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175425177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/175425177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}