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A review by jessicka
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa by John Gibler
5.0
This book should be required reading for everyone.
I went to Mexico a year after this occurred and witnessed people protesting the atrocities that the Mexican government did (and continue to do), to cover this up.
Unless you have been to Mexico or a country where the government is so intensely corrupted, it’s difficult to understand how something this barbaric, soul destroying and inhumane can happen.
John Gibler gives the voices of the survivors the power to tell their stories in this book. He also allows the “other disappeared” to tell their agonising stories about their lost sons.
I don’t have the words to do this book justice. It literally had me in tears, my heart breaking for the traumatised kids that survived this massacre and the families of the students that were “disappeared”.
As much as I love Mexico and Mexican culture and people, shame on its government for acting with absolute impunity. Shame on the soulless pieces of shit who slaughtered innocent people and “disappeared” them. Shame on the people that forcibly corrupt and terrorise innocents into being on their side with their ‘plata o plomo’ mentality.
Read this book.
I went to Mexico a year after this occurred and witnessed people protesting the atrocities that the Mexican government did (and continue to do), to cover this up.
Unless you have been to Mexico or a country where the government is so intensely corrupted, it’s difficult to understand how something this barbaric, soul destroying and inhumane can happen.
John Gibler gives the voices of the survivors the power to tell their stories in this book. He also allows the “other disappeared” to tell their agonising stories about their lost sons.
I don’t have the words to do this book justice. It literally had me in tears, my heart breaking for the traumatised kids that survived this massacre and the families of the students that were “disappeared”.
As much as I love Mexico and Mexican culture and people, shame on its government for acting with absolute impunity. Shame on the soulless pieces of shit who slaughtered innocent people and “disappeared” them. Shame on the people that forcibly corrupt and terrorise innocents into being on their side with their ‘plata o plomo’ mentality.
Read this book.