How the Guatemalan civil war became a genocide
Revisiting the 2013 trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Stoll (0000-0002-8566-269X, Middlebury College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 528-539 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jlca.12647 |
| OpenAlex | W4313365400 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
The 2013 trial of Efraín Ríos Montt cemented Guatemala's reputation as a land of genocide. Most of the survivors who testified about army crimes during his 1982-1983 regime came from the Ixil Maya town of Nebaj. Oddly, some Nebajenses credit Ríos Montt with ending army massacres and saving their lives. This article focuses on the genocide debate in the municipio of Nebaj. It concludes that command responsibility for war crimes would have been a more effective indictment than genocide
Genocide · Human rights · Indictment · Political science · Reputation · Spanish Civil War · Torture · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit
The Guatemalan Military Project
The realities of power’
The reconciliation trap
Exploring Revolution
Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference
Learning Targets
Guatemala's Genocide Determination and the Spatial Politics of Justice
Guatemala’s genocide trial and the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency
Surviving in the margins of a genocide case in the making
Perpetrators
The modernizing bias of human rights
Carrying a heavy load
Waging peace
Buried Secrets
Destroy Them to Save Us
Guatemala Will Never Change
Local Narratives of Distress and Resilience
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |