Massacres

A 1904 Massacre Could Help Save the Future of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

By Mario Osava
Children were thrown into the air and stabbed and cut with knives and machetes. The attackers first opened fire on the victims of the massacre before finishing them off with knives so that none of the 244 indigenous people of the village would survive. The 1904 massacre permanently marked the Xokleng people and may play a decisive role in the future of the native peoples of Brazil.

One Hundred Years On, Argentine State Acknowledges Indigenous Massacre in Trial

By Daniel Gutman
It’s a strange trial, with no defendants. The purpose is not to hand down a conviction, but to bring visibility to an atrocious event that occurred almost a hundred years ago in northern Argentina and was concealed by the State for decades with singular success: the massacre by security forces of hundreds of indigenous people who were protesting labor mistreatment and discrimination.

El Salvador Faces Dilemma over the Prosecution of War Criminals

By Edgardo Ayala
The ruling of the highest court to repeal the amnesty law places El Salvador in the dilemma of deciding whether the country should prosecute those who committed serious violations to human rights during the civil war.

Dutch Apologise for Indonesian Executions

By AJ Correspondents
The Dutch government has formally apologised for the mass killing of Indonesians during colonial occupation which ended in 1949.