Guatemala-Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca: Agreement on a Firm and Lasting Peace, and the 10 Integral Agreements Covering Human Rights, Resettlement, Human Rights Violations, Indigenous Peoples, Social and Economic Issues, Civilian Power and the Armed Forces, Definitive Ceasefire, Constitutional and Electoral Reforms, the Legal Integration of Urng, and Implementation, Compliance and Verification
1997 ◽
Vol 36
(2)
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pp. 258-339
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On December 29, 1996, the Guatemalan government and guerrillas of the Unidad Revoludonaria Nadonal Guatemalteca (Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity) (URNG) signed an “Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace,” formally ending Central America's longest and bloodiest internal armed conflict. According to estimates by Guatemalan human rights groups, brutal counterinsurgency campaigns by the army and civil defense groups took over 100,000 lives, resulted in the “disappearance” of some 40,000 others, and produced hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons.