"The signing of a peace accord in 1996 marked the end of the
36-year-old civil war in Guatemala but not the end of the structural
injustices that triggered it. Key commitments, such as the resettlement
of the displaced, redistribution of land and compensation for the
uprooted people and other victims of the conflict have as of June 2006
only to a very limited degree been implemented.
Ten years after the formal end of the conflict, there are no official figures on the remaining internally displaced people. However, estimates range from 250,000 to one million, according to a local IDP organisation. Indigenous people, who made up the overwhelming majority of the IDPs, have increasingly resorted to occupying large land holdings; these occupations have been violently repressed by successive governments since 1996, particularly after the installation of President Oscar Berger's government in 2004."
This information has come from the Norwegian Refugee Council via AlertNet.Ten years after the formal end of the conflict, there are no official figures on the remaining internally displaced people. However, estimates range from 250,000 to one million, according to a local IDP organisation. Indigenous people, who made up the overwhelming majority of the IDPs, have increasingly resorted to occupying large land holdings; these occupations have been violently repressed by successive governments since 1996, particularly after the installation of President Oscar Berger's government in 2004."
