Guatemalan Death Squads Target Indigenous Indians
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination, Feudalism, Serfs, Peasants, Human Rights, Violence, Massacres, Genocide, Torture
- Curriculum: Latin American History, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Guatemala
- Date: 1978-1985
Article abstract: Indian reform demands brought violent responses from the army and allied unofficial death squads, leading some Indians to join guerrilla forces and others to flee into exile.
Summary of Event
Since the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas, relations between indigenous peoples and the mixed-race descendants of the conquerors have been volatile. Land and human resources which once were controlled by indigenous peoples became spoils for the conquerors, denying many Indians access to socioeconomic rights. In Guatemala, the...
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