Decades after the Guatemalan government forcibly disappeared four indigenous human rights defenders, the country has offered a public apology to the victims’ families. 

Speaking in a ceremony on December 12, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, apologized and acknowledged that the Guatemalan state failed to fulfill its obligations to investigate, prosecute, and punish those responsible.

Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy reflected on the families of the victims, who for decades lived in “silence, with fear and impunity, because the state failed to investigate and provide the families with answers.”

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