CCA 4
Saturday 18th October
3.00-4.00 pm
A Massacre Foretold
Nick Higgins
Scotland 2007 / 58 Mins
On
22 December 1997, forty-five
indigenous residents of the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal
were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were
slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist
group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary
Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The investigation into
their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold...
Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barely-reported atrocity.
3.00-4.00 pm
A Massacre Foretold
Nick Higgins
Scotland 2007 / 58 Mins
On
22 December 1997, forty-five
indigenous residents of the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal
were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were
slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. They were members of the pacifist
group Las Abejas (The Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary
Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The investigation into
their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold...
Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barely-reported atrocity.
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