Name
|
Date
|
Location
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Deaths
|
Notes
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Spanish Embassy Massacre
|
January 31, 1980
|
Guatemala City
|
36
|
Indigenous peasant activists were burnt alive alongside former vice president Eduardo Cáceres among others
|
Río Negro Massacre
|
March 13, 1982
|
Río Negro, Baja Verapaz
|
177
|
Women and children were abused and murdered
|
Plan de Sánchez massacre
|
July 18, 1982
|
Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz
|
250
|
Mostly women and children, and almost exclusively ethnic Achi Maya were abused and murdered
|
Dos Erres massacre
|
December 6, 1982
|
Dos Erres, La Libertad, El Peten
|
226
|
Women, Children, Men, many had their heads bashed with hammers and thrown into a well. Others thrown in still alive.
|
Panzós massacre[1] |
May 29, 1978 |
Panzós |
30-60 |
Residents of village of Panzós were killed by the army
|