Guatemala's Civil War

Focus Question: What was my mom's experience through the Civil War in Guatemala?

Guatemala's Civil War

• Early 1960's-1996's
• More than 200,000 people killed
• Missing : 40,000 people

From the 1960's-1996's
More than 200,000 people killed in response to the growing of the anti-government.
Missing: 40,000



A survivor:
""We survivors hid in the forests those nights, as soldiers were still patrolling, looking for any villager they could find. In the night, dogs would come and eat at the bodies of our loved ones. We would try and bury them, but we didn't have enough time, and still the dogs would come, dig them up, and eat at them.""

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From the 1960's-1996's
Deaths: more than 200,000

From the 1960's-1996's
Deaths: more than 200,000

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