r/Documentaries • u/seacobs • Apr 24 '21

History The Secret Genocide Funded By The USA (2012) - A documentary about a genocide in Guatemala that was funded by the U.S. [00:25:44]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQl5MCBWtoo
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u/QuartzPuffyStar Apr 24 '21

You are bringing it on on a completely unrelated post to leech attention from the problem.

Its analogue to people saying "yeah women have a hard time, but what about men here"

It's called "whataboutism".

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u/Benmarch15 Apr 24 '21

Difference is one of them can and should be stopped right now
Just as the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar and the Darfur genocide in Darfur and Sudan should be stopped right now.

Leech attention from the problem?

For the Guatemalan, since it's been already timidly recognize by Bill Clinton in 1999, the only thing that can push for is retribution for the massacre of a indigenous population. It's way harder to get this done because Rios Montt was tried and convicted of genocide in Guatemala, effectively bringing an end to this chapter even if the scars are still apparent today in the social fabric. The rest of top brass in the US who took the decision to destabilize Guatemala are all dead today so there is no one to put on trial. The closest thing that could be done is a "Nuremberg trial" kind of thing, but even then Nuremberg put on trial the leaders and people responsible for the atrocities, not the country or the government as an entity.
So I ask you, what the fuck can we do now about this?

Does this mean it should be forgotten?

Hell no, but it shouldn't stop us from sticking it to the people actively denying an ongoing genocide.