Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
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Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The brutality and escalation in violence by state military forces led EGP to join the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT, and Organización Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas, Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms, ORPA, to establish the guerrilla coalition Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, URNG, in February of 1982. URNG and the Guatemalan government signed the UN-brokered "Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace" on December 29, 1996, ending over three decades of conflict.
