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> 2011 was the most violent year for human rights defenders in Guatemala since the end of the civil war. NISGUA's teams of on-the-ground international human rights monitors work to deter violence in communities, courtrooms and at public events. > Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled during the bloodiest period of the war, is awaiting trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. > The Xalalá hydro-electric dam was rejected by 89% of participants in a local referendum because it could displace thousands of indigenous people and damage farmlands and forests. > Almost 400 mining concessions have been granted to transnational gold, silver, nickel, and zinc companies in Guatemala, posing severe threats to rural communities' social and environmental well-being. | |||||||||||
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Myrna Mack Case
The Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang devoted her academic career to uncovering the Guatemalan military's counterinsurgency tactics. On September 11, 1990, Myrna was brutally murdered in retaliation for her damning research on the Guatemalan military's counterinsurgency strategy.
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Introduction
The Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang devoted her academic career to uncovering the Guatemalan military's counterinsurgency tactics. Despite the danger to herself, in the late 1980s, Myrna reported on the military's responsibility for massive displacement and destruction of entire civilian communities throughout the country. At a time when the Guatemalan military was attempting to conceal the existence of the civilian Communities of Population in Resistance, Myrna was one of the first academics to document their nature and existence.
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News Archives
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Advocacy and Accompaniment Successes
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