Archaeologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a Mayan city dating back to more than 2,800 years, providing insights ...

Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj, a member of the K´iche´ ethnic group, is a social anthropologist ... that led to the armed conflict in Guatemala and eventually to genocide against the Mayan ...

The verdict concluded that the army, under the command of Ríos Montt, had engaged in a campaign of genocide against the Ixiles, a small Mayan ethnic group. In that sense, it finally offered an ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial on Wednesday on charges of raping 36 women from the Indigenous Achi group from 1981 to 1985 during the Central American ...

The judgment is due in a landmark human rights trial in Guatemala. For the first time ... my intention or my goal to destroy a whole ethnic group." For the victims, Benjamin Geronimo, president ...

Eight of the 31 victims' remains have been identified for forensic experts The Ixil Maya ethnic group was targeted during the civil war Guatemala's former military ruler, Efrain Rios Montt ...

San Pedro Carchá (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of the Parish "St. Joseph", entrusted to the Salesian missionaries of the municipality of San Pedro Carchá, there are about 120 villages of the ethnic ...

Gen Rios Montt has denied ordering any attacks against any of Guatemala's indigenous groups ... the deaths of 1,771 people of the Ixil Maya ethnic group during his time in office in 1982-83.