Death Squad Diary Looking into the Secret Archives of Guatemala's Bureaucracy of Murder, By Kate Doyle

By Department of National Security

Book Id: WPLBN0000664305
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 3.34 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Death Squad Diary Looking into the Secret Archives of Guatemala's Bureaucracy of Murder, By Kate Doyle
Author:	Department of National Security
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government Reference Publication, Transportation., Transportation Administrative Service Center (U.S.)
Collections:	Government Library Collection, National Security Archive Collection
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Publisher:	Transportation Security Administration


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Excerpt
During Guatemala's 35-year civil war, which ended in 1996, the term to disappear had a special significance: it meant abduction, torture, and execution at the hands of the Guatemalan security forces. By the time a peace accord was signed, over 150, 000 people were dead, and some 0, 000 Guatemalan citizens had vanished, leaving family and friends to grieve without even a corpse to bury. The Guatemalan government has consistently denied knowledge of its victims fates; it can do so no longer. This document, smuggled out of the military's own archives in February just two days before a Guatemalan truth commission published its findings, lists 183 names (of which Teresa Graciela Samayoa Morales's is the first), each carefully catalogued in what amounts to a daily log of death squad activities. This list is the only known record of its kind, an accounting from inside the secret files of Guatemala's killing machine.