Guatemala Genocide Thesis

Guatemalan Ggenocide

Introduction

The Guatemalan genocide refers to the massacre of Mayan civilians during the Guatemalan military government's counterinsurgency operations.During the massacre they Fforced disappearances, torture and summary executions of guerrillas and especially civilian collaborators. Guatemalan genocide is a terrible tragedy due to racial discrimination, to violent execution, and to the starvation of the Mayan people.

Before the massacre started Destruction started to happen against a certain race because they believed they did not “belong.” They wanted to start getting rid of all indians till there was none left, “ Terror against the Indian population began in 1975.” It all started before the 1900 ended, they

Largely made up of criminals, murdered suspected subversives or their allies, under dramatic names, such as “The White Hand” or “Eye for an Eye”, “They terrorised the country and contributed to the deliberate strategy of psychological warfare and intimidation.” For that they created death squads, they created different squads for different jobs. The death squad carried out planned executions and forced disappearances. They had to do what was order by people that were on top of them, they did not have the choice to say yes or no. The international community responded to the genocide in many ways.” One way was allowing three commissioners to travel the country.” meaning that they received

November 13, 1970 they imposed a curfew from 9:00 PM to 5:00 AM, which all vehicle and pedestrian traffic, ambulances, fire engines, nurses, and physicians were forbidden throughout the national territory. October 13, 1972 ten people were knifed to death by a group names "Avenging Vulture. Between 45,000 and 60,000 adult Guatemalans were killed during the period from 1980 and 1985.. In 1976 estimates that up to 8,000 peasants were killed by the army and paramilitary organizations in Zacapa. 83% of the victims were Mayan.100 villagers of Olopa were murdered by the Mobile Military Police in 1978. Children were often beaten against walls, or thrown alive into pits where the bodies of adults were later thrown; they were also tortured and raped. On the 18th of July, 1982, President Rios Montt was quoted in the New York Times as saying to the Mayan public, “If you are with us, we will feed you; if not, we will kill