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This edited, one-volume version presents the first ever English translation of the report of The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), a truth commission that exposed the details of ´la violenca,´ during which hundreds of massacres were committed in a scorched-earth campaign that displaced approximately one million people.

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Preface; C.Tomuschat
Introduction: Facing La Violencia: The Importance of the Guatemalan Truth Commission; D.Rothenberg
Prologue
PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND ACTS OF VIOLENCE
Extrajudicial Executions and Disappearances...Forced Disappearance of the Members of the National Labor Confederation (CNT) in Guatemala City and on the ´Emaus Medio Monte´ Ranch
Torture...Torture in the Military Zone of Playa Grande, Ixcan, Department of Quiche
Forced Displacement...Death by Forced Displacement, Chiche, Quiche Municipality
Massacres...Massacre at las Dos Erres
Rape and Sexual Violence...Maya K´iche Women Victims of Rape in the Department of Quiche
Genocide...Massacre en la Finca San Francisco Nentón, Huehuetenango
Acts of Violence...Kidnapping of Romeo Augusto de León, Baltasar Morales de la Cruz, and Héctor Menéndez de la Riva by the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)
PART II: KEY ACTORS IN THE CONFLICT AND THEIR STRATEGIES
Strategies and Units of the Military and the State...PAC Members Forced to Kill Other PAC Members
Strategies of the Guerilla Organizations...Arbitrary Execution of Six Members of the Guerilla Army of the Poor by Their Own Organization
PART III: CONSEQUENCES AND EFFECTS OF THE VIOLENCE
Terror, its Effects and the Institutional Weakening of the State...Forced Transfer of Children Who Survived the Massacre in Río Negro Municipality of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz
Facing the Violence...Arbitrary Execution of Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS: TRAGEDY OF THE ARMED CONFRONTATION
PART V: RECOMMENDATIONS
Tables
Afterword ´No Room for Despair´: The Impact of the CEH; D.Rothenberg
Further Readings; M.Bellino
Note on the Translation
Acknowledgments
Appendices

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DANIEL ROTHENBERG currently a Senior Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School and a Fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University, USA.

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