The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide: pp 147-193 | Cite as
War in the Rebel Heartlands
Abstract
Chapter 5, War in the Rebel Heartlands, is based upon extensive fieldwork carried out in the Ixil and Ixcán. The chapter details the evolution of the armed conflict and the accompanying political violence in the two case-study regions of the Ixcán and the Ixil respectively during the Lucas and Montt years. The discussion details the specific development of counterinsurgency strategy in the regions, focusing, in particular, upon the changing nature of political violence and the forms through which the civilian population became increasingly implicated in the violence and subject to military control. The discussion of each respective region will close with a detailed description of a single specific massacre perpetrated there, as a means of evidencing the systematic nature of the operative mechanisms of the genocide.
Keywords
Indigenous Population Indigenous Community Mass Grave Armed Conflict Political ViolenceReferences
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