HIST 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scorched Earth
29 Jan 2019
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People got away without paying for their crimes. Struggle against impunity in new forms of violence, drug trafficking. In the 1970s, the gruella turned towards the indigenous part of the guatemala. It also symbolizes the legal road to change, with the over throw of the dictatorship of peenushay. It showcased the number of peaceful demonstration turned into blood shed: panzos massacre that took place in 1978, q"eqchi" mayas mobilized in the town of of panzos after being evicted from lands. Related to the nickel mine run by the canadian company international nickel company (nco: spanish embassy massacre (jan, 1980). The guatemalan police raid the embassy and set a fire that kill 36 people. March 23rd 1982, rios montt comes to power in the military camp. Initiates a scorched earth campaign and wages a cleansing war that was ruled a genocide. Over 100,000 people were killed in march 1982 and august 1988.
