General information

Call No.:

392-2-2:12/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-2 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: WITNESS interviews

Located at

DVD-ROM #12 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-2_012

Date of production

2002-07

Date

2002

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Spanish; castilian

Duration

1 hour

Notes

German language

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Interview with WITNESS partner Jesus Tecu Osorio. He describes the Rio Negro Massacres that occurred in 1982 and the events leading up to the massacres, namely the controversy over construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam. He speaks about the role of the World Bank and the Bank's responsibility to the victims in Rabinal. He also describes the impact of the violence on the community and current social and political issues in Rabinal. He explains how he is trying to raise money to provide scholarships for rural youth and to build a bilingual technical institute in Rabinal. He talks about the importance of documenting events through video and why it is important that Witness maintain archives for the material, given the difficulty of protecting it in Guatemala. He feels that the material needs to be used to educate the youth, so that the atrocities committed in Rabinal will never be repeated.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)