TY - VIDEO A1 - Tavares, Paulo A1 - Weizman, Eyal T1 - The Mineral Geology of Genocide II N2 - GUATEMALA: OPERACION SOFIA Environmental violence and genocide in the Ixil Triangle The violence inflicted by Guatemalan state security forces — both military and military-organized civil militias — on the Ixil Maya people in the El Quiché region of West Guatemala (1978–84) amounted, according to Guatemala’s Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) to “acts of genocide.” But genocide is not only the killing of people, for it also includes “environmental violence”: the destruction of the natural and built environment as part of a military strategy. The investigation attempts to read the environment not just as the location of conflict, but as the means by which it unfolds. This research formed a report produced on behalf of the prosecution in the case of genocide committed against the Ixil people. Our research was included in a series of trials taking place in Guatemala, including the retrial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt in the National Court of Guatemala and in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.forensic-architecture.org/case/guatemala-operacion-sofia/ ER - TY - VIDEO A1 - Weizman, Eyal A1 - Tavares, Paulo T1 - The Mineral Geology of Genocide N2 - Realized an edited essay video authored by Eyal Weizman and Paulo Tavares. The video potraits the contemporary forensic investigations of the civil war in Guatemala, the process of identifying forcably disappeared and the spatial reconstruction of the genocide against the indigenous population in the Guatemalan highlands. The first video “The Mineral Geology of Genocide” was first shown at Portikus gallery in Frankfurt a.M. in the exhibition “Mengele’s skull” and then exhibited at the 2012 Taipei Biennial. In addition a different version but part of the same research project and video series was exhibited at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv in the show “Cabinet of Wonder” Y1 - 2012 UR - http://www.stmkr.com/?paged=2 ER -