International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Article compares the processes and findings of the Truth Commissions in Canada and Guatemala; discusses how the idea and crime of genocide appears in national narratives, and how the findings of these commissions are part of a larger evolution of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.
Hurricane Stan (2005), which affected mostly poor Indians and left hundreds dead and missing, occurred between two other natural disasters and virtually went unnoticed and poorly reported on.