Terror, Grief, and Recovery: Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala
Terror, Grief, and Recovery: Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala
This chapter discusses how the victims of genocide cope with trauma. According to a 1999 report of the Commission for Historical Clarification, the Mayan population of Guatemala was the target of a genocidal campaign from 1981 to 1983. This campaign included more than six hundred massacres that were carried out mostly by Guatemalan troops. This chapter focuses on Santa Maria Tzejá, a Mayan village where 344 massacres occurred. It tries to determine how people cope with such ordeals and a life that is spent in a climate of terror and fear.
Keywords: trauma, genocide victims, Mayan population, genocidal campaign, Santa Maria Tzejá, terror and fear, massacres
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