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The erroneous belief that the end justifies the means converted Guatemala into a country of death and sadness. It should be remembered, once and for all, that there are no values superior to the lives of human beings, and thereby superior to the existence and well-being of an entire national community. —Commission for Historical Clarification, 1999

…así la Patria duerma en espera del día en que habrá que decir a las estrellas, brillen, a las aguas reflejen la alegría sonora de la cara del cielo y a los muertos despierten que ha llegado la hora del hogar sin verdugos, de la vida sin miedo, de la tierra sin amos, de la siembra y cosecha de los preciosos granos, del día venturoso de abrir los brazos todos para echarnos al cuello de la Patria querida y decirle con lluvia de júbilo en los ojos, estás entre tus hijos, y ellos están contigo. —Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobel laureate in literature 1967, “ĄSalve Guatemala!”

Human rights overviews

• Social, economic, and environmental indicators and maps:
  Guatemala: Hardship Considerations (Resource Information Center, January 2000)
• United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA), March 1999:
  Ninth report on human rights, covering most of 1998
• Resource Information Center, U.S. Department of Justice, October 1998:
  Human Rights in Guatemala Since the Signing of the Peace Accords
• World Policy Paper, April 1997:
  Democracy and Human Rights in Guatemala

Time for accountability in America’s Rwanda

• Journal of Commerce, March 1999:
  A genocide tribunal for Guatemala
• Miami Herald, May 1998:
  The assassination of Bishop Juan Gerardi: Guatemala must confront its legacy of genocide
• Among the agents of genocide: the Kaibil comandos
  • Resource Information Center, February 2000:
    Guatemala: Kaibiles and the massacre at Las Dos Erres
  • Guatemalan army’s official web page on the kaibiles, downloaded 25 January 2000: “If I go forward, follow me; if I stop, urge me on; if I turn back, kill me!”

Truth commission reports

• Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification, February 1999: Guatemala: Memory of Silence
• Informe del Proyecto lnterdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (REMHI), abril de 1998: Guatemala: Nunca Más

Treatment of homosexuals

• Connection to the Americas, June 1999:
  In Guatemala, Bashing Is Just the Beginning

Human rights atlas

• map: Human Development Index by department
• map: indigenous zones of Guatemala
• map: indigenous population by department
• map: population without access to basic healthcare
• map: conflicts over land
• map: homicides 1996
• map: massacres during civil war

Photo Essay

• Guatemala since the signing of the December 1996 Peace Accords:
  A WAR called PEACE: Images of Guatemala

A journey in search of context

• Christianity & Crisis, November 1984:
  Central America: Some of the Truth

Books

• Jonathan Evan Maslow’s portrait of Guatemala in the 1980s:
  Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A political ornithology of Central America