Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Guatemala's civil war concluded with the 1996 Oslo Agreement which declared a formal ceasefire between the Guatemalan government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, URNG) forces. [14] There is a plethora of root causes of Guatemala's 36 year civil war.
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.
Survivors from the civil war gather outside the Supreme Court, prior to a hearing in the Ixil Genocide trial, in Guatemala City, Guatemala March 25, 2024. - Cristina Chiquin/Reuters
The Communities of People in Resistance (in Spanish, known as Comunidades de Población en Resistencia, or by the acronym CPRs) were the communities uprooted by the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996) that were isolated in the jungles and mountains of Ixcán, in the department of El Quiché, since the early 1980s and reappeared in the public light in 1991.
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]
A Guatemala judge who last week ordered nine former police and military officers to stand trial for alleged crimes during that country’s civil war, said Wednesday that death threats against him ...
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