Rivers and streams. sources of drinking water were poisoned. Forests were destroyed with incendiary grenades dropped from helicopters. Anderson and Nelson interviewed 23 refugees. Together they report hundreds of killings. One man told of how Guatemalan troops hanged his brother and hacked him to death with a machete. Hundreds of refugees have similar stories. Since so many killings occurred without witnesses. it is impossible to say how many Indians died at the hands of Government troops. The lowest casualt estimate for Huehuetanango Provice alone is 3.000. Fires and bombings make many bodies untraceable. Is it not ironic that Guatemala has ratified the Genocide Convention while this Nation has not?
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