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A Peace More Violent than War - Rodrigo Abd
"The Soldier", leader of a Salvatrucha band in the neighborhood Villa Nueva, kisses his son Castulo, in Guatemala City, September 27, 2003. There are an estimated 200,000 gang members in Guatemala, a country still reeling from the effectsof its 36 yr. civil war. Guatemalan authorities have yet to pass an anti-gang law as in El Salvador and Honduras, but have responded with policesweeps, and little attention to the root causes of the gang phenomen. © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
A man carrying the coffin of a villager killed during a massacre by the Guatemalan Army. After exhuming 76 villagers killed in Cocop, Nebaj on April 16, 1981, a team of forensic anthropologists analyzed bones and clothing to identify the victims. Two years later, they have now returned the remains to relatives for burial in the community. Cocop, Nebaj, June 10, 2008. © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
Ingrid Liliana Castro holds the t-shirt full of blood of his husband, Mario Roberto Diaz, disapeared last Saturday 27 after being wounded by unkonwn persons in La Esperanza, a poor neighbourhood in Guatemala City, Sep 1, 2005. © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
A cemetery worker looks at an exhumed skeleton at the main cemetery in Guatemala City, Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Only this year, over 2000 graveyards of individuals were exhumed after their relatives have not paid the cemetery fees. According to the main cemetery rules, six years after the burial, relatives must pay 180 Quetzales -around $24- to renew the graveyard permission for another period of 4 years. After sending a telegram, if there is no payment, cemetery workers destroy the individual graveyards, and throw the skeletons into a collective graveyard © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
17-A destroyed coffin is seen after a day of exhumations in the main cemetery in Guatemala City, May 20, 2009. © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
A cemetery worker carries the exhumed skeletons to a collective graveyard in the main cemetery,Guatemala City, Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Only this year, over 2000 graveyards of individuals were exhumed after their relatives have not paid the cemetery fees. According to the main cemetery rules, six years after the burial, relatives must pay 180 Quetzales -around $24- to renew the graveyard permission for another period of 4 years. After sending a telegram, if there is no payment, cemetery workers destroy the individual graveyards, and throw the skeletons into a collective graveyard © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
"The Soldier", leader of a Salvatrucha band in the neighborhood Villa Nueva, kisses his son Castulo, in Guatemala City, September 27, 2003. There are an estimated 200,000 gang members in Guatemala, a country still reeling from the effectsof its 36 yr. civil war. Guatemalan authorities have yet to pass an anti-gang law as in El Salvador and Honduras, but have responded with policesweeps, and little attention to the root causes of the gang phenomen. © Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
It is almost fifteen years since the Peace Accords ending the Guatemalan internal armed conflict were signed by the State and the revolutionary guerrilla organization. Yet violence in this Central American country has now surpassed levels experienced during the war.
The link between 36 years of armed conflict and present violence is irrefutable.
The exhibition features several case studies from the "post-war" period, showing how the social fabric was torn apart by 36 years of brutal internal warfare.
A Peace More Violent than War
Visa pour l’image – Perpignan
Ancienne Université
From august 27th to september 11th
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