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February 24, 2012 | Javier Zurita, Ofelia de Pablo | International, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women

The invisible genocide of women

All photos, videos, and interviews ©Ofelia de Pablo, ©Javier Zurita. All rights reserved.

More than 100,000 women were raped in the 36 years of the Guatemalan genocide in which at least 200,000 people died. In this video, photojournalists Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita interview survivors and document the ongoing forensic and legal investigation that indicted former Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt on January 26.


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