“Reparations for dam-displaced communities?” report from the Chixoy Dam legacy issues meeting, July 25, 2003, Pacux, Guatemala

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Notes

¹This timeline was developed from the following sources: “Chixoy Development Project: Environmental Impact Reconnaissance” Robert Goodland and Richard Pollard, The Cary Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden, Environmental Protection Program (1978); Comparative Analysis of BID Experience with Resettlement Based on Evaluations of the Arenal and Chixoy Projects” William L. Partridge, Consultant to the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (December 1983); “The Chixoy Dam and the Massacres at Rio Negro, Agua Fria and Los Encuentros: A Report on Multilateral Financial Institution Accountability” by Paula Goldman, Casey Kelso and Monika Parik, The Working Group on Multilateral Institution Accountability, Graduate Policy Workshop: Human Rights and Non-State Actors, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, December 2000 ⟨http://www.advocacynet.org/pdf/resource/Report-Princeton-Chixoy-Executive-Summary.pdf⟩; and, “The Rio Negro Massacres” by Jesus Tecu Osorio, translated from the Spanish original “Memoria de las Masacres de Rio Negro” Rights Action (2003).

²“A People Dammed” by Witness for Peace (1996). (http://www.irn.org/programs/chixoy/index.asp?id=tech.html).

³“Life Submerged: The Environmental Impacts of Guatemala's Chixoy Dam” by Karen Levy. Report written for International Rivers Network (April, 2002). ⟨http://www.irn.org/programs/chixoy/index.asp?id=tech.html⟩.

⁴See, for example, problems detailed in “The Chixoy Dam: The Maya Achi' Genocide. The Story of Forced Resettlement” by Jaroslave Colajacomo Thematic Review 1.2: Dams, Indigenous People and vulnerable ethnic minorities, World Commission on Dams Briefing Paper ⟨http://www.dams.org/kbase/thematic/tr12.htm⟩.