State violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996: a quantitative reflection

By Herbert F. Spirer, Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak

For more than four decades, the Guatemalan state has regularly used extra-judicial violence to maintain political control in a divided nation. Over time, state terror expanded in both intensity and in the scope of its victims, from selective assassinations of militants in the armed insurgency to an ever-widening attack on members of the political opposition. By the early 1980s, state forces were committing indiscriminate murder against civilians in rural Guatemala.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871686309
• ISBN13: 9780871686305
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.