What the records say
- When
- 1980s
- Kind
- Genocide
- Coordinates
- 15.50° N, 90.25° W
- Description
- massacre of Mayan civilians during the Guatemalan military government's counterinsurgency operations (1960–1996)
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Guatemalan genocide
1981–1996 genocide of Maya people in Guatemala
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, or the Silent Holocaust, was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA-instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
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