Genieo - Your Personal Homepage. Pew Research Center. Big Think. Regator - Curated Blog Search and Discovery. : Flavors.me. By Allan NairnThe case against General Rios Montt has included vast amounts of evidence. My notes for my own scheduled testimony (for what happened see post of April 18) included the following observations: When Rios Montt seized power on March 23, 1982, he immediately seized control of and transformed army operations. He cut back on the urban assassinations, which had become counterproductive, and increased the massacres of the rural Mayans, the army's main "internal enemy.
" He took a sweep tactic that had been pioneered by General Benedicto Lucas Garcia and made it a systematic strategy, applied across the Northwest Highlands. A CIA report observed of Benedicto's -- later Rios Montt's -- method: "In mid-February 1982 the Guatemalan army reinforced its existing force in the central El Quiche department and launched a sweep operation into the Ixil triangle.
In an interview in the palace that May I asked Rios Montt about killing civilians. "They flee from their homes. "And what do you do? " Newser | Headline News Summaries, World News, Breaking News, and Local News. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Amplify.com. Lazyfeed. Sigalon.
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