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Twenty-five thousand refugees return safely to Guatemala using international nonviolent accompaniment (Project A), 1993-1999

Country
Mexico
Guatemala
Time period
January, 1993 to March, 1999
Classification
Third-party nonviolent intervention
Cluster
Democracy
Human Rights
National/Ethnic Identity
Peace
Total points
8 out of 10 points
Name of researcher, and date dd/mm/yyyy
Derrek Bentley 22/11/2013

From 1960 to 1996 Guatemalans endured a civil war in which the Guatemalan military and leftist guerrillas fought for control. In order to defeat the guerrillas, the government focused on controlling and depleting the potential guerrilla population- generally the Mayan Guatemalans. Approximately 200,000 indigenous Mayans were displaced in the early 1980s and in 1987 they decided it was time to head home.