History, motive, law, intent combining historical and legal methods in understanding guatemala’s 1981–1983 genocide

The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 339-352

  Grandin, Greg ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 50249181355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511819674.016     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Martha K. Huggins, Political Policing: The United States and Latin America (Durham, N.C., 1998).
2. Greg Grandin, “Chronicles of a Guatemalan Genocide Foretold: Violence, Trauma, and the Limits of Historical Inquiry,” Nepantla 1, 2 (2000): 391-412.
3. Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH), Guatemala: Memoria del silencio, 12 vols. (Guatemala City, 1999), 1:23-26.
4. Guillermo O’Donnell, Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism (Berkeley, 1973).]
5. “Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question of Democracy,” in David Collier (ed.), The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton, 1979).
6. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Autoritrismo e democratizaçāo (Rio de Janeiro, 1975).
7. Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt (eds.), Societies of Fear: The Legacy of Civil War, Violence and Terror in Latin America (London, 1999).
8. Idelber Avelar’ simportant discussion on these theoriesin The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Durham, N.C., 1999), ch. 2.
9. David McCreery, Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 (Stanford, 1994).
10. Alan Knight, “Debt Bondage in Latin America” in Leonie Archer (ed.), Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour (New York, 1989).
11. CEH, Guatemala: Memoria del silencio, 1:81.
12. Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, “The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,” American Journal of International Law 93, 1 (1999): 22.
13. Alexander K. A. Greenawalt, “Rethinking Genocidal Intent: The Case for a Knowledge-Based Interpretation,” Columbia Law Review (December 1999): 2266.
14. Wayne R. LaFave and Austin W Scott Jr., Criminal Law, 2nd ed. (St. Paul, 1986), 228.
15. Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (New York, 1998), and Christopher R. Browning, Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution (New York, 1985).
16. El Periódico, June 30, 1999, 3.
17. Alan Knight, “Racism, Revolution and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940,” in Richard Graham (ed.), The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 (Austin, 1994), 78.
18. CEH, Guatemala: Memoria del silencio, 1:91.
19. Hazel Ingersoll, “The War of theMountain: A Study in Reactionary Peasant Insurgency in Guatemala, 1837-1873,” Ph.D. diss., George WashingtonUniversity, 1972
20. Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Durham, N.C., 2000), chs. 3 and 6.
21. CEH, Guatemala: Memoria del silencio, 1:92.
22. Radio broadcast Guatemala Flash, March 2, 1999; Radio broadcast, Noti-7, February 25, 1999.
23. El Periódico, February 26, 1999; Radio broadcast, Noti-7, March 2, 1999.
24. CEH, Guatemala: Memoria del silencio, 5:72.
25. Victor Gálvez Borrell, Claudia Dary Fuentes, Edgar Esquit Choy, and Isabel Rodas, ¿Qué sociedad queremos? Una mirada desde el movimiento y las organizaciones mayas (Guatemala City, 1997), 63-66.
26. CEH, Guatemala: Memoria del silencio, 5:22.
27. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Central America, “Rios Montt’s Views on Peasant Killings, Communism,” June 2, 1982.