On human rights:
Amnesty International, Guatemala: Breaking the Wall of Impunity -
Prosecution for Crimes Against Humanity, AI-index: AMR 34/020/2000
19/06/2000 (Amnesty International: London, 2000).
Amnesty International, Guatemala: Human Rights Community Under Siege,
AMR34/22/2001, (Amnesty International: London 2001).
Amnesty International, Guatemala annual report 2001 (Amnesty International:
London 2001b).
Human Rights Watch, World Report 2001: Guatemala at
www.hrw.org/wr2k1/americas/guatemala.html (New York: HRW 2002).
most of the AI and HRW reports are available on line
On the violence during the armed conflict:
Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak, Herbert Spirer, State Violence in Guatemala,
1960-1996: A Quantitative Reflection, (New York: American Association for
the Advancement of Science, 1999).
REMHI Nunca Mas (London, CIIR/LAB: 1999)
Comision para el Esclarecimiento Historico, Guatemala: Causas y Origenes del
Enfrentamiento Armado Interno (Guatemala, FEG Editores: 2000)
UN, Informe de la Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (Guatemala: UN,
1999). Online at http://hrdata.aaas.org/ceh/report/english/default.html
Falla, Ricardo: Massacres in the Jungle: Ixcán, Guatemala 1975-1982,
Westview Press, Boulder et al., 1994.
Manz, Beatriz: Refugees of as Hidden War: The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency
in Guatemala, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1988.
Zur, Judith: Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows' Memories of 'La Violencia',
Westview Press, Boulder y Oxford, 1998.
Linda Green, Fear as a Way of Life
David Stoll, Between Two Armies
On the peace process
Susanne Jonas, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process (Boulder and
London, Westview Press, 2000) .
Rachel Sieder (ed.): Guatemala After the Peace Accords, Institute of Latin
American Studies, London:1998.
MINUGUA reports available on-line
Any of the Hemisphere Initiatives/WOLA reports on the peace process in
Guatemala
On rural/ethnic history
David McCreery, Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1994).
Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala (Durham, Duke University Press: 2000).
These two are both fantastic books
On the Mayan Movement
Kay Warren's book on the Maya movement
Manuela Camus and Santiago Bastos' trilogy on the Mayan movement, published
in Spanish by FLACSO Guatemala
Diane Nelson's book, A Finger in the Wound - California UP.
On the Guatemalan military, apart from the REMHI/CEH reports, the book by
Jennifer Schirmer, A Violence called Democracy (Pittsburgh UP).
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