Guatemala+(1968-1996)

Guatemala came under a dictators rule who put his country on the map by encouraging landowners to buy and run coffee plantations. As the power grew off plantations a powerful army and police force were set up to protect the wealthy landowners and their flourishing businesses. The indians saw nothing but wealth being generated under series of grasping dictators. As many years past the dictator didnt even give back to his people. So they didnt even have social security, and education. Once guatemala had started gaining more land to become under state ownership, America stepped in and strated training indians that were exiles, then launched a invasion to bring down the government. As a result to this in which nearly a thousand people died. there polocies caused a civil war that would last almost a decade. So a few years past an a resistence group was formed, adopting Marxist communist views to justify their use of violence. So by 1981 three gurrilla groups had created a A Guatemala United Front. So later on that year a small group of people marched to the city of Guatemala and occupied the spanish embassy to protest against the spanish. The ambassador told his army not to do anything, but the army burned down the building and killed all the protesters and all the staff, but the ambassador lived. The guatemalan genocide strated when the guatemalan army defeated a Marxist-led gurrilla movement by killing tens of thousands of mayan indians as suspected as a target. The government clamied that the mayans were working toward an communist coup. The army was racist aganist there own kind and killed Men, women and even their children. through several weeks working threw the whole mayan region the army, including local men had attacked 626 villages. The villagers who didnt escape became hunted refugees, were then brutially murdered. Others were forced to watch or sometimes killing there own families. children had the worst punishment from being beaten on a wall or being thrown into pits, they were also raped and tourtured.

Now after the genocide in 1986 civilans put in a new constitution, but the army kept its power because half of the population made up the army. Most of the them were responsible for the civil war brutality. peace talks were also being set up part of the agreement was the Historical Clarification commision an ivestigation in the genocide. but then the guatemala government couldnt get records between the years 1981-1983, but three commisioners travelled through the country and collected over 9,000 statements from the witnesses. but everything after went good reports had recommendations to make the memory of the victims go away.

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