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Human rights violations continue to increase with the Guatemalan people as victims because of improper protections from the government. [15] As a result of the many violations, narcotics has become a common occurrence with many kidnappings, human trafficking, and criminal activities, that have not been stopped due to the corruption of ...
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]
In 1989, it started the Guatemala Human Rights UPDATE, a bi-weekly human rights publication. [1] This was published through 2009. In the early 1990s, the Commission supported, among others, the efforts of Jennifer Harbury , an American lawyer who worked to learn about the whereabouts and fate of her husband, the Maya guerrilla commander Efraín ...
Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Friday. The ...
A Guatemalan appeals court on Friday disobeyed a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights by ordering the release of three former high-ranking military officers convicted of crimes ...
The Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission (CEH) stated that about 93% of the human rights violations of the civil war were carried out by the state. Three percent were committed by the guerrilla forces and 4% of the human rights violations were carried out by other, non identified actors. [2] Mayas made up 83% of the civil war's ...
A report released a month before these previous documents were released in Guatemala where they blamed government forces for the majority of Human rights violations by the CIA during the conflict. During the 1980s, as U.S. aid grew, Guatemalan military intelligence agents dumped suspected Guerillas -dead and alive- out of airplanes into the ...
The 1983 Guatemalan coup d'état was a palace revolt in Guatemala by the officer corps, led by then Defense Minister General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, which successfully ousted General Ríos Montt. Mejía Víctores governed the country for three years until international pressure forced him to make democratic reforms.