Guatemalan Civil War

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civil war internal armed conflict

The Guatemalan Civil War was a decades-long internal armed conflict (1960–1996) marked by brutal state repression, widespread human rights abuses, and genocide against Indigenous populations, deeply shaping Guatemala’s modern political and social landscape.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Guatemalan Revolution	2

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil war ⓘ internal armed conflict ⓘ
belligerent	Guatemalan Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Guatemalan Labour Party – Patriotic Workers’ Youth (PGT) armed wing NERFINISHED ⓘ Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) NERFINISHED ⓘ Guatemalan government NERFINISHED ⓘ Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) NERFINISHED ⓘ Revolutionary Organization of Armed People (ORPA) NERFINISHED ⓘ leftist guerrilla organizations ⓘ paramilitary forces ⓘ right-wing death squads ⓘ
cause	Cold War ideological conflict ⓘ land concentration ⓘ repression after the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état ⓘ social inequality in Guatemala ⓘ
characterizedBy	extrajudicial killings ⓘ forced disappearances ⓘ genocide against Indigenous Maya ⓘ massacres of civilians ⓘ scorched earth campaigns ⓘ state terrorism ⓘ widespread human rights violations ⓘ
country	Guatemala ⓘ
displacedPersons	over 1,000,000 people ⓘ
duration	36 years ⓘ
endDate	1996 ⓘ
endedBy	signing of the 1996 peace accords ⓘ
estimatedDeaths	over 200,000 people ⓘ
estimatedDisappeared	around 40,000 people ⓘ
legacy	deep social and political polarization in Guatemala ⓘ militarization of Guatemalan society ⓘ ongoing impunity for human rights violations ⓘ trauma among Indigenous communities ⓘ
location	Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableEvent	Plan Victoria 82 NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish Embassy fire in Guatemala City (1980) NERFINISHED ⓘ implementation of Civil Defense Patrols (PAC) ⓘ massacres in the Ixil Triangle ⓘ
opponentOf	United States-backed Guatemalan state ⓘ
partOf	Cold War in Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ
peaceAgreement	Firm and Lasting Peace Accord (1996) NERFINISHED ⓘ Oslo Accord between government and URNG (1990) preliminary agreements NERFINISHED ⓘ
percentageOfAbusesByStateForces	over 90 percent ⓘ
perpetratorOfMostAbuses	Guatemalan state forces NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryVictims	Indigenous Maya population ⓘ rural peasants ⓘ
result	Peace Accords of 1996 NERFINISHED ⓘ demobilization of guerrilla forces ⓘ formal end of armed conflict ⓘ
startDate	1960 ⓘ
supportedBy	Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ CIA NERFINISHED ⓘ Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
truthCommission	Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jacobo Árbenz → conflict → Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guatemalan Revolution

1954 Guatemalan coup d’état → followedBy → Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ

Central American conflicts of the 1980s → hasPart → Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ

Cold War proxy conflicts → hasPart → Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ

1954 Guatemalan coup d’état → precededBy → Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guatemalan Revolution