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The Peasant
It
was only in the eighties that we suffered a lot. As my friend says, all
of us lost our crops - of wheat, of corn, everything. Our animals. We
lost them all, really.
And they killed my poor father, the army...
They carried him away. They came to get him, and first they tortured him.
They put out one of his eyes, cut off one of his hands, they cut him to
pieces and shot him near one of his fields. That was where my father died.
At that time the poor women went to the
village to do, to do their shopping, but on their way back the soldiers
appear, and they rummage through all their baskets to make sure that the
don't carry anything. And they steal all their stuff, they take everything
that they bring with them.
And the women who... they also kill a poor
woman in front of our house. They killed her, and they tied up her son
with strings of agave... nylon. They tied him up and cut his throat. And
the little girl that she carried with her, the army tied her up too...
This pain is very hard to bear and you want
to cry, because it is so deplorable. That was what our family suffered
in the eighties. Not only me, but my whole family - the whole village
and especially we, the indigenous population.
We have suffered a violent repression. It
is sad to see your friends suffer. It is really horrible.
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