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The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and there were widespread human rights violations against civilians. [15]
The Guatemalan Peace Process was a series of negotiations occurring from 1994 to 1996, to resolve the Guatemalan Civil War. The negotiations resulted in the signing of "The Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace" by the government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) on December 29, 1996. [1] [2]
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, [3] or the Silent Holocaust [7] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, or Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
During the country's ongoing civil war, Guatemalan Army General Benedicto Lucas Garcia points to a map at a military garrison, Santa Cruz de Quiche, Guatemala, January 19, 1982. - Robert ...
Historians have attributed the violence of the civil war to the 1954 coup and the "anti-communist paranoia" that it generated. [211] The civil war ended in 1996, with a peace accord between the guerrillas and the government, which included an amnesty for fighters on both sides. [207] The civil war killed an estimated 200,000 civilians. [202] [i]
Beginning of the Cold War; Mexico–Guatemala Conflict (1958–1959) Guatemala Mexico: Stalemate. Relations between the two nations are frozen for several months; Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) Guatemala: URNG: Stalemate. Peace accord signed in 1996
Retired Guatemalan colonel Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the massacre of 25 Indigenous people, mostly children, some 40 years ago during one ...
The following is a timeline of the history of Guatemala City, ... Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) Guatemalan genocide; 1993 Serrano Elías coup; Return to democracy;