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    People wearing traditional Mayan clothing crossed a river while being pursued by US aircraft as they fled violence, reaching the other side at daybreak after some of their loved ones fell. By putting a former Guatemalan leader on trial for genocide, the country has crossed a threshold into enforcing laws against murder and moving towards a phase where society's laws against killing are upheld in good faith. Though many Mayan leaders were assassinated, the tradition they represented survived as any repressor knows you cannot kill everyone who resists.

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    People wearing traditional Mayan clothing crossed a river while being pursued by US aircraft as they fled violence, reaching the other side at daybreak after some of their loved ones fell. By putting a former Guatemalan leader on trial for genocide, the country has crossed a threshold into enforcing laws against murder and moving towards a phase where society's laws against killing are upheld in good faith. Though many Mayan leaders were assassinated, the tradition they represented survived as any repressor knows you cannot kill everyone who resists.

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    A Crossing in the Cuchumatanes Allan Nairn

    Monday, April 22, 2013 Whatever happens in Guatemala, one of history's rivers has been forded. In this case it was by people wearing huipiles and being pursued by US aircraft, slogging on as their loved ones fell and reaching the opposite shore by daybreak. By mounting a domestic criminal trial for genocide against a former state ruler they crossed the threshold into what is arguably a next phase of the human journey up from slaughter -- one marked by actual good-faith efforts to enforce society's murder laws. Those who have accomplished this are descendants of a long, rich popular tradition, a tradition whose leaders in Guatemala were almost all -- to a man and woman -assassinated. But as any smart repressor can tell you, you can kill most but you can't kill all.

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