JS 211gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Gacaca Court, Tutsi, Counter-Insurgency
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Who were the victims: 200,000 guatemala civilians were either killed or disappeared, mayan individuals living in guatemala, the mayan people had become half of the population of 8 million, students, clergy, indigenous, and other people. What was the rationale of perpetrators: the guatemalan military, the army conducted the genocide, why , the mayans were a subversive internal enemy. Internal enemy problematic sector of the population. When did genocide take place: uprising in the late 70"s and 80"s, then government defines all mayan as dangers to the fabric of the nation and the government. Drain the sea in which the guerilla movement operated so as to remove civilian support base in mayan highlands. Systematic campaign of genocide against the mayan people (1981- Separated men from women and killed them sequentially. Employed extreme torture, mutilation and sexual violence. Forced mayans to hunt got guerillas and stone of machete to death fellow villagers accused of being subversive .
