State Violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996:
A Quantitative Reflection

 

Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak, and Herbert F. Spirer

 

For the victims of state violence in Guatemala,
the dead and the survivors

 

Table of Contents

Title Page

List of Figures

Preface

Part I. Introduction

Part II. A Narrative of State Violence

Chapter 1. State Violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996

Chapter 2. The 1960s

Chapter 3. The 1970s

Chapter 4. The 1980s

Chapter 5. The 1990s

Part III. Analytic Comparisons

Chapter 6. Terror and Regime

Chapter 7. Reporting the Violence

Chapter 8. Urban Versus Rural Violence

Chapter 9. Reporting Urban Versus Rural Violence

Chapter 10. Naming the Victims

Chapter 11. Selective Versus Mass Killing

Chapter 12. Terror and Seasonality

Chapter 13. Methods of Terror

Part IV. Victims and Perpetrators

Chapter 14. The Victims

Chapter 15. Gender and Violence

Chapter 16. Age and Family

Chapter 17. Ethnicity

Chapter 18. The Perpetrators

Chapter 19. Civilian Against Civilian

Chapter 20. Populations in Resistance

Part V. Conclusion

Part VI. Appendices

Part VII. Bibliography of Human Rights Sources on Guatemala


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