The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide:: Political Violence in Guatemala (Rethinking Political Violence)

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This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations inside the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983. In doing so it brings to light a genocide that has remained in large part invisible within both academic disciplines and the practitioner sphere.

In Would possibly 2013, former de facto president of Guatemala, General Efrain Rios Montt, was once for ten days indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity within Guatemala’s domestic courts. Primarily based upon over a decade of ethnographic research, including in survivors’ communities in Guatemala, this book documents the historical processes shaping the genocide by analysing the evolution of both counterinsurgent and insurgent violence and strategy, focusing above all on its have an effect on upon the civilian population. The research clearly evidences the have an effect on of political violence upon non-combatants; how military and insurgent strategies regularly implicate civilians in conflict and the strategies civilians Would possibly adopt so as to continue to exist them. Convincingly framed within key theoretical scholarship from genocide studies and comparative politics it speaks to a broad target market beyond Latin Americanists.

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