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Help Massacre Suvivors in Guatemala Launch a Memorial Quilt

Help massacre survivors in Guatemala to launch a memorial quilt and develop a handicrafts cooperative among affected indigenous communities

Survivors from the 1982 Rio Negro massacres in Guatemala have followed the example of the Srebrenica survivors in Bosnia and woven a quilt commemorating the massacre victims.

In 2009, AP will work with Peace Fellows to help their advocacy organization, the Association for the Integral Development of the Victims of Violence in the Verapaces, Maya Achi (ADIVIMA), use the quilt in raising support for an ambitious handicrafts project in the highlands of Guatemala and to press ADIVIMA’s demand for reparations in Washington.

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The Advocacy Project plans to use the memorial quilt (right) in efforts to advocate on behalf of ADIVIMA and their projects. The profits will be used to further the economic development of the communities affected by the Chiloxy Dam and the victims of the Rio Negro Massacres.





The initial group of fifteen weavers (left) who made the first quilt. Each panel commemorates a family member that was killed during the massacres of March 13, 1982 at Pak'oxom.





Learn more about the ADIVIMA and the Memorial Textile
  • Peace Fellow Heidi McKinnon worked with ADIVIMA for the summer of 2008, and worked on the memorial textile project. Read her blog. 
  • ADIVIMA's Partner Page

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