| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) |
| Contents |
1. Unspeakable cruelty : Day one, March 19, 2013 -- 2. Order in the court : Day one, March 19, 2013 -- 3. The defense objects : Day two, March 20, 2013 -- 4. The trial of two languages : Day two, March 20, 2013 -- 5. The price of justice : Day three, March 21, 2013 -- 6. A question of accent : Day three, March 21, 2013 -- 7. A strong judge : Day three, March 21, 2013 -- 8. Murder of infants : never again : Day seven, April 1, 2013 -- 9. An attempt to decimate the future : Day eight, April 2, 2013 -- 10. Escape to the mountains : Day nine, April 3, 2013 -- 11. They came to kill : Day ten, April 4, 2013 -- 12. Ingrained racism : Day ten, April 4, 2013 -- 13. Bones tell stories : Day eleven, April 5, 2013 -- 14. Who killed them? : Day fourteen, April 10, 2013 -- 15. Genocide : Day seventeen, April 15, 2013 -- 16. Military operations : Day seventeen, April 15, 2013 -- 17. The right to dissent : Day seventeen, April 15, 2013 -- 18. Beans and bullets : Day nineteen, April 17, 2013 -- 19. Legal lunacy : Day twenty, April 18, 2013 -- 20. Respect -- 21. 500 years : May 9, 2013 -- 22. Genocide denied : May 9, 2013 -- 23. Verdict : May 10, 2013 |
| Summary |
The Dictator in the Dock short film series brings viewers into the courtroom as former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt stands trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala. This historic case marked the first time, anywhere in the world, that a former head of state was tried for genocide in a national court, in the country where the crimes were committed. It is also the first time in the history of South or North America, that the genocide of indigenous peoples was tried in a court of law, significantly in a country of the Americas with a majority indigenous population. As Francisco Soto, legal representative of the Maya victims, said in his concluding statement at the trial, "Justice is poised to play an important role in the historical memory of our country. For the first time in 500 years we are able to judge genocide." The symbolic and precedent setting nature of this trial for all indigenous peoples and all national justice systems cannot be overestimated. Skylight filmed the entire genocide trial of Ríos Montt from the day it started on March 19, 2013 to its conclusion on May 10, 2013, capturing the high-stakes drama of a reckoning with heinous crimes, an unveiling of impunity, and a nation's struggle to reconcile with a legacy of mass atrocities |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Cinematographers, Mario Esteban Castaño, Javier Corleto & Sean Mattison ; editor, Daniela Quiroz |
| Event |
Recorded between March 19, 2013 through May 10, 2013 |
| Notes |
In Spanish with English subtitles |
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Ríos Montt, Efraín -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Ríos Montt, Efraín fast |
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Guatemala. Junta Militar de Gobierno (1982)
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| SUBJECT |
Guatemala. Junta Militar de Gobierno (1982) fast |
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Genocide -- Guatemala
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Crimes against humanity -- Guatemala
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Crimes against humanity
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Genocide
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Guatemala
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documentary film.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Short films
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Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Short films.
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Documentaires.
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Courts métrages.
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Streaming video
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Yates, Pamela, film director.
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Onís, Paco de, film director.
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Kinoy, Peter, film director.
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Gallardo, Bea, film producer.
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Miller, Flannery, film producer.
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New Day Films, film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
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Skylight Pictures (Firm), production company.
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