While the Guatemalan Truth Commission came to the conclusion that agents of the state had committed acts of genocide in the early 1980s, fundamental questions remain. Should we indeed speak of the massacres committed between 1981 and 1983 in Guatemala as “genocide”, or would “ethnocide” be the more appropriate term? In addressing these questions, this paper focuses on the intentions of the perpetrators. Why did the Guatemalan military chose mass murder as the means to “solve the problem of subversion”? In Guatemala, the discourses of communist threat, racism and Pentecostal millenarism merged into the intent to destroy the Mayan population. This paper demonstrates that the initial policy of physical annihilation (genocidal option) was trans...
This article analyzes contemporary social cleansing and feminicide in Guatemala. Fur-ther, it explor...
This essay addresses the various stages undergone during the construction of the specific field of g...
On March 2013, a new chapter was written in Guatemala’s struggle for transitional justice with the b...
In this paper I show how selective massacres and state terror strategy systematically changed to a t...
Approximately 132,000 people were killed in Guatemala between 1978 and 1984 in an armed conflict whi...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification’s (CEH) deter...
"Tierra Arrasada" (Scorched Earth) was a military program applied in Guatemala by former President J...
This book explores the changing nature of political violence and how and under which conditions poli...
On December 29, 1996 the Guatemalan government and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Gua...
The era from the start of World War II through to the 1960s... was an era of unprecedented aggressio...
In the early 1980s the government of Guatemala waged a large scale campaign of violence against left...
On 10 May2013, decades of grassroots activism culminated in the conviction of Guatemalan dictator Ef...
Drawing on an analysis of the involvement of survivors of the Guatemalan armed conflict in a genocid...
L'autrice étudie les espaces dans lesquels les femmes Mayas ixil (Guatemala) mobilisent la mémoire d...
The author studies the spaces in which Mayan ixil women (Guatemala) mobilize the memory of the genoc...
This article analyzes contemporary social cleansing and feminicide in Guatemala. Fur-ther, it explor...
This essay addresses the various stages undergone during the construction of the specific field of g...
On March 2013, a new chapter was written in Guatemala’s struggle for transitional justice with the b...
In this paper I show how selective massacres and state terror strategy systematically changed to a t...
Approximately 132,000 people were killed in Guatemala between 1978 and 1984 in an armed conflict whi...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification’s (CEH) deter...
"Tierra Arrasada" (Scorched Earth) was a military program applied in Guatemala by former President J...
This book explores the changing nature of political violence and how and under which conditions poli...
On December 29, 1996 the Guatemalan government and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Gua...
The era from the start of World War II through to the 1960s... was an era of unprecedented aggressio...
In the early 1980s the government of Guatemala waged a large scale campaign of violence against left...
On 10 May2013, decades of grassroots activism culminated in the conviction of Guatemalan dictator Ef...
Drawing on an analysis of the involvement of survivors of the Guatemalan armed conflict in a genocid...
L'autrice étudie les espaces dans lesquels les femmes Mayas ixil (Guatemala) mobilisent la mémoire d...
The author studies the spaces in which Mayan ixil women (Guatemala) mobilize the memory of the genoc...
This article analyzes contemporary social cleansing and feminicide in Guatemala. Fur-ther, it explor...
This essay addresses the various stages undergone during the construction of the specific field of g...
On March 2013, a new chapter was written in Guatemala’s struggle for transitional justice with the b...