Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 16, 2011

Alert: Q’eqchi’ Leaders Massacred in Guatemala

Q'eqchi' Leaders Massacred in Guatemala

Thousands of q’eqchi’ peasants near Livingston, Guatemala had been anticipating February 14, 2011 as a possible day of joy and celebration. Instead it became a day of unbearable grief after the bodies of three missing leaders affiliated with Encuentro Campesino (Peasant Encounter) were found floating in a lake near Livingston, covered with bullet wounds. Read article
http://climatevoices.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/alert-q%E2%80%99eqchi%E2%80%99-leaders-massacred-in-guatemala/
or http://guatemalasolidarityproject.org

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