Massive TW: rape
I think these massacres are worse for us women, because first the women are raped … and after raping her, they pull out her tongue, they put out her eyes, they tear away her breasts, and afterwards, they just leave her dying there. Many times we have said – witnessing such terrible suffering – that we’d prefer it if they simply shot us, but not be killed in this way.
Mayan catechist Carmelita Santos talking about the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan army during Guatemala’s 36 years long internal armed conflict that started in the 1960’s and in which more than 200,000 people were killed, of which 83% were indigenous Guatemalans.
