Plan de Sánchez is a village in the municipality of
Rabinal,
Baja Verapaz department,
Guatemala
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. On July 18, 1982, while General
Efraín Ríos Montt was
President of Guatemala, a
massacre was committed there by government forces during which over 200 people were killed. The massacre was a part of what is known as the scorched earth policy where the Guatemalan army eliminated up to 200,000
Mayan and
indigenous peoples in a 36-year
civil war until 1996. In 2000
President Alfonso Portillo admitted that the government was responsible for the massacre in the village.
See also
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Plan de Sánchez massacre
The Plan de Sánchez massacre took place in the Guatemalan village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz department, on 18 July 1982. Over 250 people (mostly women and children, and almost exclusively ethnic Achi Maya) were abused and murdered by me ...
Locator maps
* – Rabinal municipality
Populated places in the Baja Verapaz Department
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