Sexual violence against indigenous women in Guatemala "destroyed Mayan culture."

The trial of three men accused of sexual violence against 36 indigenous women during Guatemala's internal armed conflict moves forward this week with the intervention of an anthropologist who explained how these violations "destroyed the Mayan culture" and have social repercussions that persist more than 40 years later. "The sexual violence inflicted against women during the armed conflict was intended to break Mayan cultural resistance," anthro…