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[The following article by Jill Replogle is reprinted with the permission of Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. It appeared in the July 14, 2004, edition of Latinamerica Press.]
Faced by a crowd including hundreds of Mayan indigenous people in early July, victims of the armed conflict, President Oscar Berger asked for forgiveness for the state's role in human rights violations committed during the country's internal conflict, which ended in 1996.
"I ask Rosalina Tuyuc, woman, mother, and widow of the armed conflict, to accept, in the name of all the victims, the forgiveness I ask for today in the name of the state," said Berger.
Tuyuc, former congresswoman and head of the Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala (CONAVIGUA), is president of the Comision Nacional de Resarcimiento (CNR) charged...
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