The Guatemalan Civil War
Rooted in the 1954 CIA-backed coup, Guatemala's civil war (1960-1996) pitted a succession of military governments against leftist insurgents. The army's scorched-earth counter-insurgency in the early 1980s, peaking under Rios Montt, devastated Maya communities. A UN-backed truth commission later attributed the overwhelming majority of some 200,000 deaths and disappearances to the state and found that acts of genocide had been committed. Peace accords were signed in 1996.
- Year: 1960 CE
- Category: Civil War
