The history of the military in Guatemala demands that we wait. They have ruled with force. violence. and total disregard for human rights. In the first years of this decade they killed not hundreds but thousands of rural peasants in a scorched earth policy aimed at defeating the small guerrilla opposition. It was a policy which had no respect for human life. It was a policy that produced an estimated 100.000 refugees and 500.000 displaced persons. In 1983. three Guatemalan linguists employed by USAID were kidnaped and murdered. No one has ever been prosecuted and no one has ever been punished for those crimes.
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