berikut info buku dari https://www.dukeupress.edu/paper-cadavers
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala’s secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala’s bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country’s National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America.
The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala’s struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country’s fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.
No Democracy Without Archives – Boston Review
The dramatic history of Guatemala’s National Police archive illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.
Kirsten Weld
Chronicle of a backlash foretold Guatemala’s National Police archives, lost and found and lost – and found? – again1 – Kirsten Weld
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Mengadili Kejahatan Genosida Penguasa Diktator Guatemala Efraín Ríos Montt, Memetik Pelajaran Untuk Genosida 1965-1966
The R.E.M. song “Flowers of Guatemala” is a commemoration of the genocide.
I’ve took a picture that I’ll have to send
People here are friendly and content
People here are colorful and bright
The flowers often bloom at night
Amanita is the name
The Flowers Cover everything
The flowers cover everything
There’s something here I find hard to ignore
There’s something that I’ve never seen before
Amanita is the name, they cover over everything
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything (Amanita is the name)
The flowers cover everything
Look into the sun
Don’t look into the sun
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
The flowers cover everything
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
The flowers cover everything
There’s something that I’ve never seen before
The flowers often bloom at night
Amanita is the name, they cover over everything
The CIA’s Secret Genocide in Guatemala
Pada tahun 1978, pemerintah Guatemala memulai upaya bersama untuk menyerang desa-desa adat, kata Victoria Sanford, profesor antropologi di Lehman College. “Serangkaian pembantaian dimulai yang pada akhirnya, pada tahun 1982, adalah genosida – 626 desa dihancurkan,” dan 200.000 orang terbunuh.
Guatemalan Genocide: The Silent Holocaust
Guatemala’s Disappeared | Fault Lines
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide,[2] or the Silent Holocaust[3] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, o Holocausto silencioso), was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan military government’s counterinsurgency operations. Massacres, forced disappearances, torture and summary executions of guerrillas and especially civilian collaborators at the hands of security forces had been widespread since 1965 and was a longstanding policy of the military regime, which US officials were aware of.[4][5][6] A report from 1984 discussed “the murder of thousands by a military government that maintains its authority by terror”.[7] Human Rights Watch has described “extraordinarily cruel” actions by the armed forces, mostly against unarmed civilians.[8]
The repression reached genocidal levels in the predominantly indigenous northern provinces where the EGP guerrillas operated. There, the Guatemalan military viewed the Maya – traditionally seen as subhumans – as siding with the insurgency and began a campaign of mass killings and disappearances of Mayan peasants. While massacres of indigenous peasants had occurred earlier in the war, the systematic use of terror against them began around 1975 and peaked during the first half of the 1980s.[9] The military carried out 626 massacres against the Maya during the conflict[10] and acknowledged destroying 440 Mayan villages between 1981 and 1983. In some municipalities, at least one-third of the villages were evacuated or destroyed. A March 1985 study by the Juvenile Division of the Supreme Court estimated that over 200,000 children had lost at least one parent in the war and that between 45,000 and 60,000 adult Guatemalans were killed between 1980 and 1985.[11] Children were often targets of mass killings by the army including in the Río Negro massacres between 1980 and 1982.[12]
An estimated 200,000 Guatemalans were killed during the Guatemalan Civil War including at least 40,000 persons who “disappeared“. 93% of civilian executions were carried out by government forces. Of the 42,275 individual cases of killing and “disappearances” documented by the UN-sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), 83% of the victims were Maya and 17% Ladino.[1] The CEH in 1999 concluded that a genocide had taken place at the hands of the Armed Forces of Guatemala, and that US training of the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques “had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation” but that the US was not directly responsible for any genocidal acts.[1][9][13][5][14] Former military dictator General Efrain Ríos Montt (1982–1983) was indicted for his role in the most intense stage of the genocide. He was convicted in 2013, but that sentence was overturned and his retrial was not completed by the time of his death in 2018.
selengkapnya Guatemalan Genocide – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE BY MEMBERS OF GUATEMALAN HISTORICAL CLARIFICATION COMMISSION
19990301
Massacres, human rights violations and other atrocities described by some 9,000 witnesses and survivors clearly illustrated a governmental policy of genocide in Guatemala, correspondents were told by members of the Historical Clarification Commission of Guatemala at a Headquarters’ press conference this afternoon.
selengkapnya https://press.un.org/en/1999/
Truth and Reconciliation (2000) – Truth and Reconciliation (2000): The rule of Guatemala’s new democratic President is still compromised by military officers implicated in the murder of civilians during Guatemala’s civil war.
Paper Cadavers The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kristen Weld
Paper Cadavers The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kristen Weld
sempat disinggung Ken Mc Clean dalam seri debat septar buku Jess Melvin, (2018). The army and the Indonesian genocide: Mechanics of mass murder. New York: Routledge.
The genesis of Melvin’s book proves the old adage: ‘You don’t ask, you don’t get.’ However, the ‘facts’ found in the over 3,000 pages of classified documents Melvin obtained are not transparent, a point that Ann Stoler (2002:93–5) makes in her call for a shift from viewing the ‘archive-as-source’ to the ‘archive-assubject’. The documents Melvin reviewed are a small part of a much larger, still unexamined national archive on1965–1966 created, organized, and utilized in, as yet, unknown ways. The traditional view of archives as sources of knowledge extraction rather than knowledge production, Stoler argues, misses the ways in which states, as well as others, tell stories about themselves, exercise power within and beyond their bureaucracies, and determine which secrets can be told and which must be protected. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who writes about the power of silences, makes a related point. Trouillot (1995:26) argues that silences shape historical production at four key moments: ‘the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retroactive significance (the making of history in the final instance)’. Consequently, the distinction between ‘what happened’ and ‘that which is said to have happened’ is not always clear, according to Trouillot. Both arguments suggest that much can be gained by examining the documents not only for what they say, but also for what they do not, as Kristen Weld did in her fascinating book Paper cadavers: The archives of dictatorship in Guatemala (2014). How, then, does stepping back, theoretically and methodologically to read the Indonesian military documents, both with and against the grain, affect the questions researchers should ask about the events of 1965–1966 moving forward, if access to materials from elsewhere around the country becomes possible?
dipetik dari Historicizing the Archive: Rethinking the Mechanics of Mass Murder in Indonesia (1965–1966) – Ken MacLean Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
The R.E.M. song “Flowers of Guatemala” is a commemoration of the genocide.
I’ve took a picture that I’ll have to send
People here are friendly and content
People here are colorful and bright
The flowers often bloom at night
Amanita is the name
The Flowers Cover everything
The flowers cover everything
There’s something here I find hard to ignore
There’s something that I’ve never seen before
Amanita is the name, they cover over everything
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything (Amanita is the name)
The flowers cover everything
Look into the sun
Don’t look into the sun
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
The flowers cover everything
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
The flowers cover everything
There’s something that I’ve never seen before
The flowers often bloom at night
Amanita is the name, they cover over everything
Pada tahun 1978, pemerintah Guatemala memulai upaya bersama untuk menyerang desa-desa adat, kata Victoria Sanford, profesor antropologi di Lehman College. “Serangkaian pembantaian dimulai yang pada akhirnya, pada tahun 1982, adalah genosida – 626 desa dihancurkan,” dan 200.000 orang terbunuh.
Guatemalan Genocide: The Silent Holocaust
Guatemala’s Disappeared | Fault Lines
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide,[2] or the Silent Holocaust[3] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, o Holocausto silencioso), was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan military government’s counterinsurgency operations. Massacres, forced disappearances, torture and summary executions of guerrillas and especially civilian collaborators at the hands of security forces had been widespread since 1965 and was a longstanding policy of the military regime, which US officials were aware of.[4][5][6] A report from 1984 discussed “the murder of thousands by a military government that maintains its authority by terror”.[7] Human Rights Watch has described “extraordinarily cruel” actions by the armed forces, mostly against unarmed civilians.[8]
The repression reached genocidal levels in the predominantly indigenous northern provinces where the EGP guerrillas operated. There, the Guatemalan military viewed the Maya – traditionally seen as subhumans – as siding with the insurgency and began a campaign of mass killings and disappearances of Mayan peasants. While massacres of indigenous peasants had occurred earlier in the war, the systematic use of terror against them began around 1975 and peaked during the first half of the 1980s.[9] The military carried out 626 massacres against the Maya during the conflict[10] and acknowledged destroying 440 Mayan villages between 1981 and 1983. In some municipalities, at least one-third of the villages were evacuated or destroyed. A March 1985 study by the Juvenile Division of the Supreme Court estimated that over 200,000 children had lost at least one parent in the war and that between 45,000 and 60,000 adult Guatemalans were killed between 1980 and 1985.[11] Children were often targets of mass killings by the army including in the Río Negro massacres between 1980 and 1982.[12]
An estimated 200,000 Guatemalans were killed during the Guatemalan Civil War including at least 40,000 persons who “disappeared“. 93% of civilian executions were carried out by government forces. Of the 42,275 individual cases of killing and “disappearances” documented by the UN-sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), 83% of the victims were Maya and 17% Ladino.[1] The CEH in 1999 concluded that a genocide had taken place at the hands of the Armed Forces of Guatemala, and that US training of the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques “had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation” but that the US was not directly responsible for any genocidal acts.[1][9][13][5][14] Former military dictator General Efrain Ríos Montt (1982–1983) was indicted for his role in the most intense stage of the genocide. He was convicted in 2013, but that sentence was overturned and his retrial was not completed by the time of his death in 2018.
selengkapnya Guatemalan Genocide – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE BY MEMBERS OF GUATEMALAN HISTORICAL CLARIFICATION COMMISSION
19990301
Massacres, human rights violations and other atrocities described by some 9,000 witnesses and survivors clearly illustrated a governmental policy of genocide in Guatemala, correspondents were told by members of the Historical Clarification Commission of Guatemala at a Headquarters’ press conference this afternoon.
selengkapnya https://press.un.org/en/1999/
Truth and Reconciliation (2000) – Truth and Reconciliation (2000): The rule of Guatemala’s new democratic President is still compromised by military officers implicated in the murder of civilians during Guatemala’s civil war.
Paper Cadavers The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kristen Weld
Paper Cadavers The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kristen Weld
sempat disinggung Ken Mc Clean dalam seri debat septar buku Jess Melvin, (2018). The army and the Indonesian genocide: Mechanics of mass murder. New York: Routledge.
The genesis of Melvin’s book proves the old adage: ‘You don’t ask, you don’t get.’ However, the ‘facts’ found in the over 3,000 pages of classified documents Melvin obtained are not transparent, a point that Ann Stoler (2002:93–5) makes in her call for a shift from viewing the ‘archive-as-source’ to the ‘archive-assubject’. The documents Melvin reviewed are a small part of a much larger, still unexamined national archive on1965–1966 created, organized, and utilized in, as yet, unknown ways. The traditional view of archives as sources of knowledge extraction rather than knowledge production, Stoler argues, misses the ways in which states, as well as others, tell stories about themselves, exercise power within and beyond their bureaucracies, and determine which secrets can be told and which must be protected. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who writes about the power of silences, makes a related point. Trouillot (1995:26) argues that silences shape historical production at four key moments: ‘the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retroactive significance (the making of history in the final instance)’. Consequently, the distinction between ‘what happened’ and ‘that which is said to have happened’ is not always clear, according to Trouillot. Both arguments suggest that much can be gained by examining the documents not only for what they say, but also for what they do not, as Kristen Weld did in her fascinating book Paper cadavers: The archives of dictatorship in Guatemala (2014). How, then, does stepping back, theoretically and methodologically to read the Indonesian military documents, both with and against the grain, affect the questions researchers should ask about the events of 1965–1966 moving forward, if access to materials from elsewhere around the country becomes possible?
dipetik dari Historicizing the Archive: Rethinking the Mechanics of Mass Murder in Indonesia (1965–1966) – Ken MacLean Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
