During the Genocide
There were about 200,000 Guatemalans killed in the genocide. Kids were beaten against walls or thrown in to pits alive, they would often get raped too. Many Guatemalans were shot multiple times or tortured and shut up to die alone slowly. Women that were wounded because of pregnancy, had their wounds cut open. the women were raped constantly while they were also being tortured. Operations were carried by military units called commandos backed up by the army. They had planned executions and "disappearances". death squads, made up of mostly criminal, often killed their allies. they terrorized the country and helped with the strategy of psychological warfare and intimidation. URNG's guerrillas could not help the Mayan Indians, there were not enough of them. There were too few to be a real threat to the State, whose huge and brutal campaign was driven by long-term racist prejudice against the Mayans. Of the human rights violations recorded, the State and the Army were responsible for 93%, the guerrillas for 3%. Throughout the genocide, the USA continued to provide military support to the Guatemalan government, mainly in the arms and equipment. The infamous guerrilla training school, the School of the Americas in Georgia USA, continued to train Guatemalan officers for human rights abuses, the CIA worked with Guatemalan intelligence officers, some of which were on the CIA payroll even though they knew human rights violations. US involvement was understood to be strategic, or, put another way, not any different to the fate of a bunch of Indians.In the wider facts of the Cold War and anti-Communist action.
The map above shows how small Guatemala is and how many people were killed or disappeared during the genocide.
Violence in Guatemala
This graph shows that the violence in Guatemala has always been under 2,000 but between the years 1989 band 1995 the violence increased to about 200,00. the increase was because of