Reparation and dignity measures for the Maya Achí women of Rabinal, arrive late and are at risk of non-compliance due to appeals filed after the sentencing of three former police officers to 40 years in prison for sexual violence during the military dictatorship. teleSUR
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00:00Reparations and dignity measures for the Maya Achi women of Rabinal arrived late and are at risk of non-compliance due to appeals filed after the sentencing of three former police officers to 40 years in prison for sexual violence during the military dictatorship.
00:16These two members of the Achi women's case survived by weaving nuts from palm, leaves, while they wait for reparations, and justice for the crimes against humanity they suffered more than four decades ago.
00:30Every day they face countless struggles, not only economic, but also distance, poverty, illness, and most are over 60 years old.
00:43In this case, the high-risk court granted 18 of the 26 individual, and collective remedies requested, whose objective is to transform the conditions of poverty resulting from state dictatorship.
00:57So that women feel secure, have their own house, and land to plant, and live on, then I consider that these are the most important, apart from various other measures, that have been planned.
01:10One of the women still remembers, how the army destroyed her life. Not only did it take her husband away from her, but it also condemned her to exile from her village in Zokok, Rabinal Baha Virapaz, where she has led a wandering life.
01:23I'm just visiting my sister's house. I'm living at my niece's house.
01:29The popular law firm of Rabinal warns that the lack of political will and legal technicalities could hinder the case, affecting the implementation of the 18 accepted reparation measures.
01:41The judge stated that there is an appeal against that challenge incident, therefore, we consider that these repairs will take about a year, more or less, a year and a half, for it to be, let's say, final.
01:54The Ashwomen case is a criminal proceeding that began more than 15 years ago, and resulted in a 40-year, prison, sentence, for three former patrolmen, revealing the use of sexual violence, as a weapon of war.
02:07The historical clarification report indicates that the municipality of Rabinal, Baja Virapaz, was another of the localities cruelly affected during the military dictatorship, with more than 30 recognized massacres, that were influenced by the United States' national security doctrine.
02:23Santiago Botón, Telesur Guatemala.