CHILLING DETAILS FROM THE DOS ERRES MASSACRE
BY MARINA MANOUKIAN/JUNE 25, 2022 10:46 PM EDT
The community of people living at Las Dos Erres had no warning before the military death squad came to their doors in the middle of the night. And then, over the course of four days, an entire village was wiped off the face of the Earth. For years, the Guatemalan government and army maintained that the villagers had been killed by guerrillas and rebels, likely caught in the crossfire of the civil war that was raging across the country at the time. But even back then, many knew the reality of the horrific events that had occurred in 1982.
It took over 10 years for some of the victims of the massacre to be laid to rest and it took almost 20 for official recognition of the tragedy. But while justice is slowly being served, and many argue whether or not it actually is, families of the massacred are still irrevocably haunted by what they came across. José León Granados Juárez was barely over 20 years old when he discovered the bodies of his father and his uncle and for the following 30 years, "that gruesome image has chased him." These are some chilling details from the Dos Erres massacre.
THE GUATEMALAN CIVIL WAR
The Guatemalan Civil War began in 1960, six years after the CIA overthrew the Guatemalan government in a coup d'état and installed Carlos Castillo Armas as the head of a military dictatorship. After the coup, Armas reversed agrarian reforms while detaining and murdering peasants, labor activists, and leftist intellectuals until his assassination in 1957, according to ThoughtCo.
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