El Aquacate Massacre

El Aquacate Massacre During the 1980s Guatemala suffered a bloody civil war. Left wing insurgents battled against a government army that had no qualms against massacring entire villages. The insurgents slowly regained their strength in the late 1980s. But then in November 1988 21 men from the village of El Aguacate, close to the town of Chimaltenango, disappeared. Their bodies were later found in mass graves. The army blamed the insurgents belonging to the group Organizacion Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA). Later investigation showed that it was in fact the army who was responsible. Here we visit an ORPA camp on the slopes of the Atitlan volcano and follow the aftermath of the El Aguacate massacre as the army escorts the coffins of the disappeared into town.

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