About this Collection
The Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) collected materials documenting the serious human rights violations resulting from armed conflict in Guatemala from 1960-1996. These materials were used to issue the official report of the Human Rights Office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala (ODHAG): 'Guatemala Never Again!'.
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This digital collection includes documents from the Interdiocese Project for the Recovery of the Historic Memory (REMHI): Never Again. This project was launched in 1994 by the Archbishop's Office for Human Rights (ODHA) of Guatemala and collected documents and testimonies related to the armed conflict in Guatemala (1960-1996). The materials include community reports, eyewitness accounts of massacres, newspaper clippings and additional press materials. These different kinds of documentation reflect a range of themes and topics, including the Communities of Population in Resistance (CPR), the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PAC), refugees and internal displacement, social violence of the internal armed conflict. The collection also includes photographs that show the first exhumations carried out in the early 1990s, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Monsignor Juan Gerardi Conedera, the Peace Process and Martyrs' Hall.
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