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New project about femicide in Guatemala

A Virtual Memorial is happy to announce another collaboration between Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and Raquel Partnoy.

In 2001, Agricola de Cologne started the “Family Portrait”, an online art work spotlighting diasporadic course of life of the Partnoy family, in which Raquel, her daughter Alicia and Granddaughter Ruth play the main roles, a project which was completed in 2005 in the framework MOSAICA Award 2005, whose winner was “Family Portrait”.

In 2003, Agricola started the next collaboration with Raquel Partnoy in Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina“, an online art work which was realised in 2004 in the framework of the global networking project [R][R][F]200x—>XP. This project is dedicated to the ten thousand of disappeared people who vanshied without any traces during the military regimes in Argentina during 50ies and 70 of 20th century, and the Mother of Plaza de Mayo, who fighted against by demonstrating.

In 2009, another collaboration starts in a project which, again, is dealing with the position, situation and presecution of women, this time focussing on another Latin American country, i.e Guatemala, where during the military ruling thousands of women were killed in a so -called “femicide”. The titel of the project is referring to this—>Women: Femicide in Guatemala.
incorporating many testimonies and documents by Guamaltecan women who brought the case of the femicide to a broader public and attendance only short time ago.

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  T h e N e t w o r k » ann: new memorial project wrote @ September 1st, 2007 at 9:50 am

[...] A Virtual Memorial , the memorial project enviroment in the framework of The NETWORK, is proud to announce the start of another project referring to the traumatic history and memory in Latin American countries, i.e the femicide in Guatemala. Read more details [...]

  Rosa Franco wrote @ September 16th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Gracias por su enorme potencial trabajo acerca del femicidio, gracias por incluirlo, soy madre de MARIA ISABEL VELIZ FRANCO quien fue plagiada, violada, torturada y asesinada en dic. 2001, tenia 15 años de edad. He sufrido mucho por esto, no me lo imaginè nunca. Después de la justicia de Dios, espero que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos la haga también en el mundo, en especial en Guatemala por cuanto el Estado es complice con los autores, puesto que respaldan lo que argumenta el Ministerio Publico al decir que si han hecho muchas diligencias, etc. en cuanto al asesinato contra mi hija, pero del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho. Espero que crezca su proyecto. Dios los bendiga.
Rosa Franco
Guatemala
tel. 502 42525738

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