When Gen. Efran Ríos Montt controlled Guatemala his soldiers intensified a scorched-earth campaign across the Maya highlands begun by his predecessor in 1981 to flush out leftist guerrillas. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/world/americas/victims-of-guatemala-civil-war-eagerly-await-dictators-trial.html?ref=world The military marched into villages, torturing, raping and killing those who could not run away. They burned down houses and crops, and butchered livestock. Attacks on […]