GPHC 2018-2019

Cassandra Wilson March 6, 2019 For 36 years, from 1960 to 1996, Guatemala’s military was at war with its own indigenous people.    Army commanders backed by the United States of America took control of the country in 1954, under the leadership of Colonel Carlos Armas, to stop the Guatemalan Revolution which put communists in charge of the country in the early 1950’s.     Six years later, a far more brutal leader, General Fuentes, took power by assassinating Colonel Armas, and began a large scale conflict against former supporters of the leftist movement, and armed rebel groups who lived mainly in the country’s northwestern interior. About two hundred thousand people, mainly indigenous Mayans, were either killed, or simply disappeared.    As the civil war raged on, ordinary citizens protested against the actions of the military, and they and their families also became targets. By the 1980’s there was almost no remaining opposition and the military ruled the country with unquestioned

Human rights were created by humans to ensure that things like holocaust and slavery never happen again. But in places around the world, those very right are being ignored and violated. The Gay-concentration camps in Chechnya, and the African Slave trade. The Gay-concentration camps in Chechnya are a product of the Chechens a mainly Islamic group of people in a part of Russia, the concentration camps are modeled after the Nazi camps. The UN hasn't done anything but demand that they stop... they haven't and won't. The camps violate The Universal declaration of human rights article 5 " No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Africa has become the world's epicenter for the modern slave trade. There is little to not enough being done about this. Slavery itself violates  The Universal declaration of human rights  article 4 " No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall