Billy Briggs

Montt is accused of genocide during the early 1980s, the bloodiest period of Guatemala's 36 year civil war. Despite international warrants for his arrest it looks likely he will remain free. here's a piece I wrote for New Statesman...

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Published by The Big Issue in Scotland - March 29th, 2007 It is a savage crime against a professional and serious journalist and a courageous woman. It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against...

I am forwarding this urgent appeal to intervene against the proposed executions of three Iraqi women. Last year, your help saved the life of a woman Iraqi journalist. Stop imminent executions of three women in Iraq Wassan Talib, 31...

My years of slavery with the terroristsAnne Singleton grew up in an unremarkable Yorkshire family, but by her early 20s she was a member of a terrorist organisation recruiting suicide bombers in Iraq. Billy Briggs reports.Anne...

The article was published by The Guardian - Read the article on guardian.co.uk

Billy Briggs FATHER Tom Hagan points to seven bullet holes in the walls and roof of the classroom and slowly shakes his head. “Why would they shoot at a school full of children?” the American priest says wearily. We are standing in St...

My article can be viewed if you visit the international section of http://www.sundayherald.com/ Billy Briggs Guatemala City. Outside the morgue in zone three of Guatemala City Fablo Fajardo waited to identify the body of his brother...

At the entrance to the Casa Alianza shelter stands a statue of the Virgin Mary. It is a memorial bearing the names of 120 homeless children murdered on the streets of Guatemala. The first named is 13-year-old Nahaman Commona, kicked to...

Spent fours emailing people this morning then went for a swim as legs very stiff after a 12 mile walk near Bingley yesterday. I'm still trying to sell a couple of pieces from my trip to Guatemala so continually pitching to editors. I...

Haiti’s forgotten tragedy has no end in sight This appears in today's Sunday Herald, an award winning Scottish newspaper I write for regularly. David Pratt, the foreign editor, provides excellent coverage of human rights issues each...

The Sunday Times - Scotland The Sunday Times December 10, 2006 The feeding of the slum 5,000A tin hut in the heart of rural Argyll is the unlikely hub of a growing campaign to save children such as these in Haiti from starvation...

I was wrong when I said yesterday that a tour of downtown Port Au Prince would provide a taste of Cite Soleil. I could not have been more wrong. Home to nearly half a million people crammed into a space only roughly three square miles...

Photographer Angela Catlin and I arrived in Port Au Prince yesterday after travelling for about 20 hours. We are staying in a hotel close to the airport called Hotel Visa Lodge. Today we hired a driver and had a two hour tour of the...

I'm to fly out to Haiti on Friday to write a feature for a national newspaper. I'll be staying for a week and working with photograper Angela Catlin. We're getting access to Cite Soleil - one of the world's most awful slums - through...

I'm just back from a trip to Guatemala with photographer Angela Catlin and we are in the process of trying to sell our work to newspapers, magazines and radio. We spent two weeks in Guatemala City, surely one of the most violent...