1st Edition

Quiet Genocide Guatemala 1981-1983

By Etelle Higonnet Copyright 2009
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

257 Pages
by Routledge

Quiet Genocide reviews the legal and historical case that genocide occurred in Guatemala in 1981-1983. It includes the full text of the genocide section of a United Nations sponsored Commission on Historical Clarification in Guatemala (CEH), brokered by the UN. In its final report, the CEH's rigorously reviewed abuses throughout the whole country. However, the memory of the Guatemalan dirty... Read more

Editor's Note

[Etelle Higonnet]

Preface: Genocide in Guatemala

[Juan E. Méndez]

1. Politics by Other Means: Guatemala's Quiet Genocide

[Greg Grandin]

2. English Translation of Sections of the Genocide Argument in the Final Report of the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification, "Memory of Silence"

3. Genocide: General Considerations and Legal Definitions (par. 3198-3225)

4. General Policy (par. 3226-3243)

5. Region I (Maya Ixil People): Municipalities of San Juan Cotzal, Santa Maria Nebaj, and San Gaspar Chajul, Quiché (par. 3244-3361)

6. Region II (Maya Achí People): Municipality of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz (par. 3362-3431)

7. Region III (Maya K'iche' People): Municipality of Zacualpa, K'iché' (par. 3432-3492)

8. Region IV (Chuj Maya and Q'anjob'al Maya Peoples): Municipalities of Nentón, San Mateo Ixtatány Barillas, Huehuetenango (par. 3493-3580)

10. Final Conclusions to the Genocide Section

11. Criminal Prosecutions for Genocide in Guatemala: Advances and Obstacles in Transnational and Domestic Cases

[Naomi Roht-Arriaza]

Appendix I Historical Clarification Commission: Mandate and Investigative Procedures

Appendix II Guatemala: Memory of Silence Recommendations

Biography

Etelle Higonnet