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Jan. 26:
Relatives of Mayans killed in genocide during the Efrain Rios Montt dictatorship in Guatemala watch his hearing in a Guatemala City courtroom.
Riots Montt is being charged with genocide and crimes against humanity after a court decided there was enough evidence to charge him. One of the cases they considered was the deaths of 1,700 ethnic Mayans, who were killed in a single ‘counterinsurgency’ operation during the Guatemalan Civil War.
He was armed by the U.S. during this period, which means the U.S. is also responsible for genocide.
(Photo: Rodrigo Abd, Associated Press)
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Screenshots taken from this trailer of Grandma’s Tattoos (dir. Suzanne Khardalian).
In 1919, just at the end of World War I, the Allied forces reclaimed 90,819 Armenian young girls and children who, during the war years, were forced to become prostitutes to survive, or had given birth to children after forced or arranged marriages or rape. Many of these women were tattooed as a sign that they belonged to abductor.
The story of “Grandma’s Tattoos” is a personal film about what happened to many Armenian women during the genocide. It is a ghost story—with the ghosts of the tattooed women haunting us—and a mystery film, where many taboos are broken.
“Grandma’s Tattoo’s’: A Riveting Film About the Forgotten Women of Genocide
Khardalian is the director and producer of riveting new film called “Grandma’s Tattoos” that lifts the veil of thousands of forgotten women—survivors of the Armenian Genocide—who were forced into prostitution and tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.
“As a child I thought these were devilish signs that came from a dark world. They stirred fear in me. What were these tattoos? Who had done them, and why? But the tattoos on grandma’s hands and face were a taboo. They never spoke about it,” explains Khardalian.
“Grandma’s Tattoos” is a journey into the secrets of the family. Eventually, the secret behind Grandma Khanoum’s blue marks are revealed.
As it turns out, not only are most people unaware that 1.5 million Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians were killed under Turkish rule, but also that 90,000 Armenian women and children were abducted and sold into slavery and prostitution. 90,000 women and children.
(via iamthecrime)
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