Americas Watch. a widely recognized human rights organization. reported in February 1985: Torture. killings. and disappearances Lotinue at an extraordinary rate. and mlilions of persons remain under the strict scrutiny and control of the government through the use of civil patrols and "model villages". Guatemala remains. in short. a nation of prisoners. The UNHCR has put the number of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico at 40.000. and the number in Honduras at 1.500. We cannot even begin to guess at the number in this country. In late 1984. an official census supervised by the supreme court stunned the nation when it found that there were over 51.000 orphans in three provinces of the highlandsand that estimates indicated the figure would rise to 100.000 if the other highland provinces and the refugees in Mexico were included. Over 50 people a month are disappearing. a rate higher than that of the bloodiest yeais of 198182. The Guatemalan bishops stated in September of 1984 that over 38.000 Guatemalans have disappeared in the last 30 years since the CIA aided coup that deposed the last civilian government.
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