Mr. President. over the past few years. Guatemala has been committing incredible atrocities against its Indian population. Thousands of people have been shot. hanged. or have simply disappeared. Entire villages have been destroyed for supposedly being "guerrilla villages." In "Witness to Genocide." Thomas Anderson and Craig Nelson. two experts on Latin American politics. use testimony of refugees to detail Government atrocities. Most of the witnesses are Indians from the Guatemalan Province of Huehuetenango. I They tell of childrens throats being slit and of women being hit with machetes. Animals were slaughtered. and villages were burned to the ground in a futile search for guerrilla strongholds.
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