Organization
Commission for Historical Clarification
Commission whose 1999 report, Memory of Silence, counted the dead and disappeared of Guatemala’s armed conflict and concluded that acts of genocide had been committed.
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chaired by
- Christian Tomuschat 1997 Coordinator appointed by the UN Secretary-General Primary record 1
involved in
- Clinton’s remarks in Guatemala City, 1999 its report was the subject of the remarks Primary record 2
- Guatemala’s armed conflict 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 3
authored
- Guatemala: Memory of Silence 1999 Primary record 3
Timeline 2 dates
Proof 3 sources
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Press conference by members of the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission, 1 March 1999, United Nations, 1 Mar 1999.
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He had been appointed by the Secretary-General and charged with appointing the two Guatemalan commissioners
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Remarks by the President in Roundtable Discussion on Peace Efforts, Guatemala City, 10 March 1999, The White House, 10 Mar 1999.
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just to say a few words about the report of the Historical Clarification Commission.
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Guatemala: Memory of Silence. Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification: Conclusions and Recommendations, Commission for Historical Clarification, 1999.
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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.
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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