Guatemalan Civil War - Wikipedia
The Civil War began on 13 November 1960, when a group of left-wing junior military officers led a failed revolt against the government of General Ydigoras Fuentes. The officers who survived created a rebel movement known as MR-13.
Timeline: Guatemala’s Brutal Civil War | PBS News
2011年3月7日 · 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 Fuentes, who...
The Guatemalan Civil War: History and Impact - ThoughtCo
2020年3月21日 · 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.
Guatemala - Civil War, Human Rights, Refugees | Britannica
2024年11月8日 · Guatemala - Civil War, Human Rights, Refugees: Castillo Armas emerged from the resulting military junta as provisional president, and a plebiscite made his status official.
Regional court blames Guatemala for the ... - The Washington Post
1 天前 · They disappeared in April 1989, during the first civilian presidency of Vinicio Cerezo after decades of military leadership, and amid Guatemala’s 36-year civil war that ended in 1996. Advertisement
General goes on trial for genocide, 40 years after Guatemala’s ... - CNN
2024年4月13日 · Their deaths took place in the middle of Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war as a series of US-backed military governments cracked down on leftist rebels across the country.
Guatemala's civil war devastated the country's indigenous Maya ...
2018年9月3日 · The campaign included: bombing villages and attacking fleeing residents; impaling victims; burning people alive; severing limbs; throwing children into pits filled with bodies and killing them;...
History of Guatemala | Summary, Independence, & Civil War
Guatemalan civil war, 1960 to 1996 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 ...
Guatemalans still seek justice, 25 years after civil war’s end
2021年12月29日 · 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.
Abstract: To approach this topic I first explain the so-called "New Wars" concept, which describes how contemporary conflicts differ significantly from modern interstate "Old Wars". Subsequently, I use this concept to analyse the civil war in Guatemala in the second half of the 20th Century.