The Guatemalan Civil War

YAHAD - IN UNUM

The Guatemalan Civil War YAHAD - IN UNUM

Between 1960 and 1996, in order to understand the mechanisms of violence and mass crimes, and by applying the same investigative methodology as for the Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum began in 2012 to investigate the internal armed conflict that took place in Guatemala between 1960 and 1996. Thousands of victims from Maya communities were massacred and forced to abandon their villages, while hundreds of people in urban areas of the country were subjected to torture and killings by the Guatemalan army and revolutionary guerrilla groups.

To date, the association has carried out six research trips and conducted 170 interviews in Guatemala, mainly with Maya survivors from rural areas, but also with the families of missing persons in urban areas.