Event
Guatemala’s armed conflict
The armed confrontation in Guatemala from the 1960s to 1996, which the Commission for Historical Clarification said killed or disappeared over 200,000 people.
- Dates
- 1962–1996
Connections 5
involved
- United States government the Commission says U.S. military assistance reinforced the intelligence apparatus and trained officers in counterinsurgency Primary record 1
- Commission for Historical Clarification named structural injustice, the closing of political spaces and racism as the underlying factors, and said the cold war “also played an important role” Primary record 1
- Government of Guatemala the Commission concluded that agents of the State, in counterinsurgency operations in 1981–1983, committed acts of genocide Primary record 1
followed from
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The 1954 coup in Guatemala
According to Commission for Historical Clarification
Primary record
1
One of several underlying factors the Commission names; it also names structural injustice and racism.
appears in
- Guatemala: Memory of Silence the report’s estimate: over 200,000 killed or disappeared Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1962–1996 Guatemala’s armed conflict
Proof 1 source
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Guatemala: Memory of Silence. Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification: Conclusions and Recommendations, Commission for Historical Clarification, 1999.
Primary record
military assistance was directed towards reinforcing the national intelligence apparatus and for training the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques
other parallel phenomena, such as structural injustice, the closing of political spaces, racism
are the underlying factors which determined the origin and subsequent outbreak of the armed confrontation.
The cold war also played an important role.
agents of the State of Guatemala, within the framework of counterinsurgency operations carried out between 1981 and 1983, committed acts of genocide against groups of Mayan people which lived in the four regions analysed.
After the overthrow of the government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, there was a rapid reduction of the opportunity for political expression.
the CEH estimates that the number of persons killed or disappeared as a result of the fratricidal confrontation reached a total of over 200,000.
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