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1. Guatemalan Civil War - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War
Description: WEBThe Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The government forces have been condemned for committing genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and for widespread human rights violations against civilians. [15]
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2. Timeline: Guatemala’s Brutal Civil War | PBS NewsHour
Link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/latin_america-jan-june11-timeline_03-07
Description: WEBMar 7, 2011 · 1960 – Guatemala’s 36-year civil war began as left-wing guerilla groups started battling government military forces. The country was now under autocratic rule by Gen. Miguel Ydigoras...
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3. The Guatemalan Civil War: History and Impact - ThoughtCo
Link: https://www.thoughtco.com/guatemalan-civil-war-history-and-impact-4800364
Description: WEBPublished on March 21, 2020. The Guatemalan Civil War was the bloodiest Cold War conflict in Latin America. During the war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996, over 200,000 people were killed and one million people were displaced. The 1999 UN Truth Commission found that 83% of casualties were indigenous Maya, …
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4. Guatemala - Civil War, Human Rights, Refugees | Britannica
Link: https://www.britannica.com/place/Guatemala/Civil-war-years
Description: WEBCivil war years. Castillo Armas emerged from the resulting military junta as provisional president, and a plebiscite made his status official. He extirpated communist influence, quashed agrarian reform, and broke labour and peasant unions with considerable violence, but he himself was brought down by an assassin’s bullet in July 1957. For the ...
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5. Guatemalans still seek justice, 25 years after civil war’s end
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/29/guatemalans-still-seek-justice-25-years-after-civil-wars-end
Description: WEBDec 29, 2021 · Guatemalans still seek justice, 25 years after civil war’s end. Survivors decry new amnesty bill that would free perpetrators of crimes against humanity during 1960-1996 civil war.
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6. Guatemala's civil war devastated the country's indigenous Maya
Link: https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-guatemala-war-aftermath-20180903-story.html
Description: WEBSept. 3, 2018 3 AM PT. Reporting from Ixtupil, Guatemala — During the 1980s, as much of Central America became a bloody Cold War battleground, the conflict in Guatemala stood out as...
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7. Guatemala: 25 years later, ‘firm and lasting peace’ is nowhere to …
Link: https://theconversation.com/guatemala-25-years-later-firm-and-lasting-peace-is-nowhere-to-be-found-174153
Description: WEBPublished: January 2, 2022 7:58am EST. Dec. 29 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of a peace accord that effectively brought 36 years of armed conflict in Guatemala to an end. When what’s...
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8. Why you need to know about Guatemala’s civil war
Link: https://theworld.org/stories/2016/12/29/why-you-need-know-about-guatemalas-civil-war
Description: WEBDec 29, 2016 · Today is the 20th anniversary of the signing of the peace accord that ended Guatemala’s civil war. Most Americans don’t know much about this 36-year conflict. We should. It’s one of the most brutal in Latin American history.
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9. Family Photos and Mass Graves Reveal the Horrors of Guatemala’s Civil War
Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/family-photos-and-mass-graves-reveal-the-horrors-of-guatemalas-civil-war
Description: WEBDec 8, 2015 · This man was but one of the estimated 200,000 people who were killed or went missing during the civil war in Guatemala—a 36-year conflict between the state-backed military and leftist...
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10. 25 Years After the Peace Accords, Ending Impunity and …
Link: https://www.wola.org/2021/12/25-peace-accords-guatemala/
Description: WEBDec 17, 2021 · Giammatteihas overseen the wholesale dismantling of the country’s peace institutions that were put in place to ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the Peace Accords, threatening to undermine the ability of victims of grave human rights violations to access justice, truth and reparations.
