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01/07/2005
franco
fran09890@hotmail.com
merida

Vi tu documental y sÛlo me pregunto por quÈ nos matamos entre hermanos, todavÌa hoy no entiento el por quÈ de esa guerra y sÛlo pido a Dios que si de algo sirviÛ todo aquel desastre sea para que el resto de paises hermanos tomen conciencia de que esto no puede volver a ocurrir. Franco

01/03/2005
Joel

On vacation in San Jose, Costa RIca, I saw Dominga's story on TV. For a U.S. citizen, there are only two words: Ronald Reagan. HE should be exhumed, and buried in Guatemala. It was HIS permission that told Rios Montt to go ahead with the massacres. Why is our military never sent to STOP these crimes? Because it is the politics of rich against poor and against non-whites.. Under REAGAN, 500 Mayan villages that had survived the Conquistadores were wiped out. WIth his full knowledge and approval. WHO is the greater monster? Since 1982, when I learned of the massacres, I have paid no taxes to the U.S. Government. I did not buy the bullets that killed these families, and I worked to persuade other norteamericanos to stop supporting, and to resist these crimes. Even Clinton did not go directly to Guatemala and demand justice. It can never be "my" government until this is done. www.nwtrcc.org

01/03/2005
Joel

(continuacion) It is sad that we still have a government like Reagan's, which we must resist, and watch closely, or it will support more massacres like Guatemala's. I believe that Dominga's work (and Blane's, as the sympathetic man and father I saw him to be) is to use their story to PROTECT Guatemala and other innocents from these forces of evil. I saw the citizens of Algona respond. Others will too, in time. This is their best chance to heal, going forward, and to show their children their courage, and their legacy. It looks to me like this is what they are doing. Yes, you get to have a good life, a family life. BUT, we are also thrown into the political work by the terrible demands around us. Balance. We can do no more than our best, and God will recognize us for trying. We might even win...

01/03/2005
Joel

(3rd thought) Walking around in San Jose, I see the people who would never harm anyone, wanting just to be left alone, to work and raise their families. Guatemala, all over the world, the same. I am sorry if what I wrote sounded like Dominga's personal loss and tragedy was not complete in itself. So personal, something I will never know. (I worked with a young Cambodian woman, who fled the Khmer Rouge at the same age as Dominga. She had never told anyone, either, until one day at our office we all stayed to listen and encourage her to tell it all. None of us moved, for over an hour.) What I wanted to say, is that, with time, Dominga will find herself at the point position of the oldest war on earth -- against violence and injustice. Our battles are real, and our weapons must be pure love and nonviolence. Otherwise, we lose before we begin. But we can and will win. I know it is so unfair, that one idiot with a machine gun can stop the lives of hundreds, hundreds of the best and finest people. I feel hopeless too, sometimes. I will buy this film when it is available and show it to as many as I can, with my interpretation to emphasize NOT supporting a U.S. government that encourages these massacres.

11/13/2004
Carmen
San Salvador, El Salvador

Despues de haber visto el documental por HBO, me quedan claras dos cosas. La primera es que mi pais El Salvador no ha sido el unico en llorar sangre y lagrimas por las injusticias de la guerra, y la segunda, es que Dominga ha heredado el valor, la tenacidad y el caracter de su raza. Asi como Dominga, hay miles de niÒos y niÒas alrededor del mundo, buscando su propia identidad. No puedo hacer nada, mas que desearle a ella y a todos los que le ayudan y apoyan mucha suerte en lograr la tan ansiada justicia, y apoyarles de hoy en adelante con mis oraciones. Animo Dominga, cuentas con miles de personas que nos simpatizamos con tu causa, y deseamos el final de cualquier conflicto belico en cualquier lugar del mundo. Nosotros, los salvadoreÒos, tambien lo hemos vivido.

09/20/2004
lauren

hola dominga, i wanted to say thank you for telling your story. it makes me sad and upset to think of what you had to go through. but at the same time, i admire your braveness in telling it to the world. i hope you continnue to find the answers you are looking for. thinking of you, lauren

09/01/2004
Rebeca
jesumelis@yahoo.com
Guatemala

Hola Dominga, el dia de ayer pasaron este documental por HBO. Sabes realmente en nuestro pais se comenten estos tipos de crimenes tan nefastos tan viles. quiero decirte que comparto el dolor de haber perdido a tus padres en manos de personas que realmente no aman a Dios y que no le temen. Pero sabes algo hay una justicia Divina y Dios ve todo lo que se hace en la tierra . Creeme que estas personas recibiran su castigo, Dios tarda pero no olvida. Quiero que El te de las fuerzas necesarias para hacer lo que tu tengas que hacer. Rebeca Guatemala

08/31/2004
Marlene Jensen
malle@jensen.mail.dk
Denmark

Hi Denese/Dominga Last night I watched your story on danish television and I was truely moved. I need to write to let you know that you're doing the right thing. A wise woman once told me that one needs air to pass it on, I hope that makes sense in english translation. An awful and inhuman tragedy has happened to you and your people. You have a right to be angry and hurt but I hope and think that one day you'll be able to put this behind you and move on. Don't let those horrible people have the power to hurt you anymore. By reading this I hope that you know that you've told the story to the world and that you have support eventhough we live so far apart. We're all children of this world and nobody deserves to be treated like this. Fight for justice and take care of yourself. You deserve a good life. Sincerely Marlene Jensen, Denmark

08/31/2004
Melina
melinaromero@hotmail.com
Guatemala

DOMINGA: Tuve la oportunidad de conocer tu historia y me siento muy triste de pensar que cosas tan horribles pueden sucederle a personas que viven tan cerca y que nosotros los que vivimos en la Ciudad de Guatemala a veces ni nos imaginamos ni cuenta nos damos. Te felicito por tu valor para afrontar el dolor y para poder perdonar a esas personas. Me enorgullece que seas guatemalteca.

08/16/2004
maricel
oromar99@hotmail.com
costa rica

hola dominga... dejeme decirte que mientras miraba el film no pare de llorar ni un instante.toda la noche pase en vela, y no he parado de pensar en todo lo que te sucedio. eres muy valiente, sigue adelante con sus metas y que dios le de muchas bendiciones ati y atus hijos. a pesar de que no te conosco estoy muy orgullosa de ti. att... una amiga x siempre. y arriba dominga.......

08/09/2004
F. Antonio G.

Quetzaltenango,Guatemala

DOMINGA: I JUST WANT TO SOLIDARIZE WITH YOUR CAUSE, I THINK WE SHOULD KNOW ALL THE THINGS THAT OCURRED IN THE 80'S IN OUR COUNTRY,IN ORDER TO PREVENT THIS THINGS IN THE FUTURE, FORTUNATELY THERE ARE MANY BOOKS AVAILABLE ABOUT ALL THE MASACREES AND THE KILLINGS COMMITED BY THE ARMED FORCES, ONE OF THIS BOOKS IS: GUATEMALA MEMORIA DEL SILENCIO PUBLISHED BY C.E.H COMISION DEL ESCLARECIMIENTO HISTORICO, GUATEMALA: HARVEST OF VIOLENCE BY ROBERT CARMACK, MASACRES DE LA SELVA BY RICARDO FALLA, EL REMI BY MONSE—OR JUAN JERARDI CONEDERA. REMEMBER: WE HAVE TO KNOW OUR PAST (NOT THE GOVERNEMENT POINT OF VIEW)WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND OUR PRESENT.

08/09/2004
F. Antonio.G.
antgonzach@hotmail.com

HERMANA DOMINGA: ME SOLIDARIZO CON TU CAUSA, COMPARTO TU DOLOR Y TUS ESPERANZAS PARA QUE LOS ASESINOS DE NUESTRO PUEBLO PAGUEN POR TODAS LAS VIDAS QUE CEGARON, POR EL INTERMINABLE DOLOR DE NUESTROS HERMANOS Y HERMANAS EN ESTE PAIS, QUE DESDE HACE 500 A—OS SE HA CONVERTIDO PARA NOSOTROS LOS MAYAS EN UN PAIS DE ETERNA TIRANIA, OPRESION Y EXPLOTACION. MUCHAS PERSONAS SE PREGUNTARAN; øQUE HACEMOS PARA QUE EL GENOCIDIO Y LAS MASACRES NO VUELVAN A OCURRIR EN EL FUTURO? LAMENTABLEMENTE NO EXISTE UNA FORMULA MAGICA, MAS BIEN UNA SERIE DE MEDIDAS DE TIPO POLITICO Y SOCIAL, UNA DE ELLAS DESDE MI PUNTO DE VISTA ES LA PRESERVACION DE NUESTRA MEMORIA HISTORICA, APRENDER DE NUESTRO PASADO (NO DE LA HISTORIA OFICIAL DEL GOBIERNO Y DE UNOS CUANTOS PODEROSOS), UNA DE LAS IMPORTANTES FUNCIONES DE LA HISTORIA ES QUE NOS AYUDA A COMPRENDER NUESTRO PRESENTE Y ESA HISTORIA JAMAS LO ENCONTRAREMOS EN LOS LIBROS OFICIALES DE HISTORIA, SINO EN OBRAS DE GRAN OBJETIVIDAD COMO: GUATEMALA: MEMORIA DEL SILENCIO, EL REMI, MASACRES DE LA SELVA DE RICARDO FALLA, LAS OBRAS DE GUZMAN BOCKLER, Y MUCHOS OTROS, QUE NOS AYUDARAN A COMPRENDER NUESTRO PRESENTE Y LO MAS IMPORTANTE, NOS AYUDARAN A CONSTRUIR UN PAIS MAS JUSTO E INCLUYENTE.

06/08/2004

antoniogonzalez122000@yahoo.com
Guatemala

Dominga y miles mas: Lo que le ha pasado a Dominga es indignante aunque no deberia de extraÒarnos tanto ya que en un pais como el nuestro, con una larguisima tradicion colonial donde un grupo que cuenta con poder economico y politico (CACIF) se ha enquistado en el estado para controlarlo y de esa manera proteger sus intereses en detrimento de la mayoria indigena y campesina. Yo jamas justificaria a un genocida como Rios de sangre Mont pero el no es el unico causante del genocidio porque detras de el esta el poder economico y politico del CACIF que actuaron en complicidad con el gobierno norteamericano especialmente del asesino de RONALD REAGAN

06/08/2004
antonio
antoniogonzalez122000@yahoo.com
Guatemala

DEAR DOMINGA: I have no words to describe all the pain your testimony caused us unfortunatelly there are thousands of storys like yours, i think Rios (river of blood)Mont it's not the only one to blame,'cause Guatemala like many other countries it's controlled and exploited by an economical and political elite known as the powerful CACIF as well as the Reagan's external politics. The north american governement it's so guilty as Rios Mont, i hope the united states human rights organizations can do something about this, spetially now when Berger is trying to get us citizens' money to modernize the Guatemalan army, please US CITIZENS HELP US TO STOP WASTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE INSTITUTION OF DEATH LIKE THE GUATEMALAN ARMY!!!!!!!!

04/22/2004
DavidG

Guatemala

Que bueno que aun exita esta clase de personas como tu Dominga en el cual no se averguenzan de su pasado y que luchan como tu lo has hecho por que se haga justicia en nuestro pais. Lamentablemente nos gobernaron personas equivocadas y es una pena que aun conociendo las barbaridades que cometieron no se les haga justicia o mejor dicho no se les quiera hacer. Rogemos a Dios para que nos ayude en este camino que todos llevamos y si queremos que nuestro pais sea mejor empecemos por nosotros mismo... Que Dios te bendiga Domingo y a seguir adelante...

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