Plan de Sánchez

Plan de Sánchez is a small village in the municipality of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz department, Guatemala.^[1] 2022 On July 18, 1982, while General Efraín Ríos Montt was President of Guatemala, a massacre was committed there by government forces during which over 200 people were killed. The massacre was a part of what is known as the scorched earth policy where the Guatemalan army eliminated up to 200,000 Mayan and indigenous peoples in a 36-year civil war until 1996. In 2000 President Alfonso Portillo admitted that the government was responsible for the massacre in the village.

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↑ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, ed. (2004). Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos. Vol. 2. Brill. p. 1160. ISBN 9789047443971.

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15°6′0″N 90°27′0″W / 15.10000°N 90.45000°W / 15.10000; -90.45000 – Rabinal municipality

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[1] Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, ed. (2004). Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos. Vol. 2. Brill. p. 1160. ISBN 9789047443971.

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Plan de Sánchez

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