About a year ago, I learned about the silent holocaust, the mass genocides of indigenous Yucatec Mayans by the US-backed Guatemalan government. I was horrified by the stories of what the children saw as they hid or fled from their villages, by the burnings and torture, by the sheer number of people and villages erased.
When I went to talk about it with my family and my friends, I was shocked. No one had heard of it. I decided to attempt to tell the story through rap. 
My current version attempts to tell the story from multiple sides, including those of Mayan villagers and soldiers coerced into joining the army.

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