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Article: Excerpts: summary of report on Guatemala's civil war.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- March 12, 1999
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Tragedy of armed confrontation
With the outbreak of the internal armed confrontation in 1962, Guatemala entered a tragic and devastating stage of its history with enormous human, material and moral cost. In the documentation of human rights violations and acts of violence connected with the armed confrontation, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) registered a total of 42,275 victims, including men, women and children. Of these, 23,671 were victims of arbitrary execution, and 6,159 were victims of forced disappearance. Eighty-three percent of fully identified victims were Mayan, and 17 percent were Ladino.
Combining this data with the ...