Cultural & Ethnic Studies La cumbia de la memoria (2016) by Rebeca Lane—Human Rights

19 . La de la memoria ( 2016 ) by Rights Before the song . The song title highlights the importance of memory in creating community bonds . Let put that into practice with an activity in which the whole class participates . Sitting in a circle , choose a memory that everyone shares ( for example , the first day of school ) and , one at a time , share your personal story of that shared memory . Lane song talks about the memory of the Mayan people regarding the crimes committed by the army against them during the civil war . The testimonies of the victims and witnesses served to convict the military of the crime of genocide . What distinguishes this legal term from other violent crimes against people ?

How does the perspective change if one uses genocide instead of violence against people ?

Discuss these questions with your classmates . In groups , read the description of genocide and discuss what elements stand out to you the most . The text below comes from the report Memoria del ( Memory ) an account and evaluation of the human rights violations that occurred during the The report was prepared by the Commission for Historical ( at the request of the United Nations . Genocide 109 . Article II of this instrument the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide the crime of genocide and its requirements in the following terms genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy , in whole or in part , a national , ethnical , racial or religious group , as such a ) Killing members of the group ) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group . The available English translation is a summary of the original report in Spanish that can be accessed here . The Commission conclusions and recommendations did not have legal . 165

166 a de la Hispanic Cultures Through the Screen ) Deliberately on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part ) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group ) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another . In consequence , the concludes that agents of the State of , within the framework of counterinsurgency operations carried out between 1981 and 1983 , committed acts of genocide against groups of Mayan people which lived in the four regions analysed . This conclusion is based on the evidence that , in light of Article of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , the killing of members of Mayan groups occurred ( Article ) serious bodily or mental harm was ( Article ) and the group that was deliberately subjected to living conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part ( Article ) The conclusion is also based on the evidence that all these acts were committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part groups by their common ethnicity , by reason thereof , whatever the cause , motive or objective of these acts may have been ( Article , paragraph ) Lane is the artistic name of the singer Eunice Vargas ( City , 1984 ) Watch the interview that Lane did for channel . Activate the function to include English subtitles . After watching the interview , answer the following questions Who is ?

How does she herself ?

How does her family describe her ?

What is Lane View of music and art ?

What topics are in her songs ?

Who are the protagonists in her music ?

Who is her audience ?

How does Lane explain the trial against Rios ?

What does she think about armed struggle ?

And what about political activism ?

How does Lane understand and describe feminism ?

How does she describe her indigenous origins and ( mix of races ) in ?

How does she picture nowadays ?

Song and music video . Listen to the song and watch the music video on YouTube . Below you can find the lyrics of La de la Click on the links to know more about the references in the text . We are here to vindicate the memory of the people . We are here to say Here in , there was genocide ! Rivers of blood that the Earth cried , after so much slaughter in times of war . And don think that this happened only in the , so many towns razed in such a bloody way . So many killings in such a Violent way , the army murdered over and over again .

La de la memoria ( 2016 ) by Rights As they think with hatred they do things the wrong way , they defend the interests of the rich , you may have not realized this but the massacre of Mayan communities had a genocidal purpose . said it , they want to kill majorities , what a coincidence that there is mining in those lands now . and beans to reeducate , those are concentration camps to . Rios , do not deny it , we are gon na judge you . As many times as necessary , I will testify . Of course there was genocide , this body knows it because the body never forgets , you try to erase history and I write memory , listen to this song , it is a conviction . Of course there was genocide , this body knows it because the body never forgets , you try to erase history and I write memory , listen to this song , it is a conviction . I am not the genocide . They cant force historical amnesia on our collective memory . I am . We are not the genocides . What a nerve ! to say that there was not genocide . There was a genocide ! The genocide is Rios . The people have already brought you to trial Judge Barrios said , yes , he did it ! For days you listened to the tortures of people so brave that they refuse to forget . The power managed to overturn the conviction , antediluvian oligarch pushed back progress they fear that we have lost our fear we were reborn from the earth with all our dead . Of course there was genocide , this body knows it because the body never forgets , you try to erase history and I write memory , listen to this song , it is a conviction . Of course there was genocide , this body knows it because the body never forgets , you try to erase history and I write memory , listen to this song , it is a conviction . Genocide is not just our in the country , but a demand from the world , 167

168 a de la Hispanic Cultures Through the Screen that the genocides in , be tried and sentenced . There was genocide . After listening to the song In groups of three or four , answer the questions below to know more about the themes in the song . Share your answers with the rest of the class . The song begins with a quote by author Miguel Angel The eyes of the buried will close on the clay of justice , or they will never The same quote can be found in the prologue to the Report by the Commission for Historical . What does this phrase mean ?

Why do you think it is included in the report and the song ?

Search online who was Miguel Angel . Write down key ideas about him and his work and present them in class . The music video includes different locations . Describe each of the locations who are the people there ?

How do they look like ?

What do they wear ?

What are they doing ?

The scenes of the trials come from the documentary en el ( Dictator in the Dock ) 2013 ) directed by Pamela Yates . Watch the episode 24 , in which the judge reads the sentence and answer the questions below What is the sentence ?

What reasons does the judge provide to justify her sentence ?

What does the judge hope for the future of after issuing the sentence ?

How do people in the room react ?

How does this episode relate to Lane song and what you have read about genocide ?

The lyrics of the song use the person in plural ( we ) and singular ( I ) as well as the second person ( you ) and the third person plural ( they ) Read the lyrics , watch the music video and try to out who those persons are . What actions does the song attribute to each person ?

Does the singing voice identify with one of them ?

Who is ?

What actions are carried out by ?

Along with racism , the song brings a new reason why people were been exterminated . Which one ?

Final assignment 10 . The genocide carried out by the Nazis during Second World War prompted the international community to develop international treaties to prevent something similar happening again in the future . One of those treaties . The sentence was revoked shortly after by the Constitutional Court of . Another trial was initiated but it was interrupted because the defendant passed away .

La de la memoria ( 2016 ) by Rights 169 was the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , whose of genocide we have read in activity . Another was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 . Read article of the Declaration and write a essay about it . All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights . They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood . References de de la . de . 2021 . Collective Wikipedia , Foundation , 18 2021 , April 2021 . para el . Memory of Silence . United Nations , 1999 . Human Rights Data Analysis Group , April 2021 . Rios Wikipedia , Foundation , 18 2021 , April 2021 . uploaded by Skylight , 2013 , April 2021 . Wikipedia , Foundation , 12 2021 , April 2021 . Wikipedia , Foundation , 18 2021 , April 2021 . Civil Wikipedia , Foundation , 15 2021 , April 2021 . Iris Barrios Wikipedia , Foundation , 18 March 2021 , April 2021 . Wikipedia , Foundation , 2021 , April 2021 . Lane , Lane . 2016 . April 2021 . La de la Alma mestiza , Studios , 2016 . La de la . 13 June 2015 , April 2021 . Rap memoria en con Natalia . Youtube , uploaded by , 23 2019 , April 2021 . Richard . Chief Says that War is The New York Times , 11 1982 , April 2021 . United Nations . Universal Declaration of Human Rights . rights . April 2021 . Yates , Pamela . en el . Dictator in the Dock . Skylight , April 2021 .