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Title: Army Checkpoint In Guatemala City
Date: 1982-02-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan army soldiers check bus passengers for weapons in Guatemala City, Guatemala, February 1, 1982. Tighter security measures were being taken due to the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for March 7, 1982. In the 36-year domestic armed conflict lasting from 1960-1996, an estimated 200,000 people were killed, up to 45,000 civilians were forcibly disappeared, and between 500,000 and 1.5 million people were internally displaced or fled the country. Guatemala's Historical Clarification Commission determined 93 percent of the violence was perpetrated by the state.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Elections; Daily life; Counterinsurgency; State-sponsored violence
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0125_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96850
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Family Picture in Quiché, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An extended Maya family stands for a photograph in the rural highlands of Quiché, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. In the 36-year domestic armed conflict lasting from 1960 to 1996, an estimated 200,000 people were killed, up to 45,000 civilians were forcibly disappeared, and between 500,000 and 1.5 million people were internally displaced or fled the country. 83 percent of the victims were indigenous Maya people.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Civilian casualties; Daily life
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0021_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96744
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ixil Maya Religious Procession In Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Ixil Maya men leave the central plaza following a Roman Catholic church service in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. The guerrilla organization Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, maintained a base of operations in the Ixil region during the armed conflict, and retaliation from the Guatemalan Armed Forces with an aggressive scorched-earth policy saw the destruction of villages and crops along with the mass murder and disappearance of Ixil civilians.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP); Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0114_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96963
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Leftist Graffiti At University Of San Carlos In Guatemala City
Date: 1982-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Graffiti in support of leftist insurgent groups and anti-government posters collect on a wall in the University of San Carlos campus in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 1, 1982. The university served as an active space of resistance throughout the domestic armed conflict, challenging the militarization and violence of the state and its U.S.-sponsored imperialistic policies. The Guatemalan government and its Western allies labeled all university protests as communist insurgency to justify the murders and forced disappearances of USAC students and faculty committed by the state.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Insurgency; Communism; Marxism-Leninism; State-sponsored violence; Desaparecidos; Cold War; Partido Guatemalteca del Trabajo (PGT); Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario Robín García (FERG)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0020_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96743
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Leftist Graffiti At University Of San Carlos In Guatemala City
Date: 1982-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Graffiti in support of leftist insurgent groups and anti-government posters collect on a wall in the University of San Carlos campus in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 1, 1982. The university served as an active space of resistance throughout the domestic armed conflict, challenging the militarization and violence of the state and its U.S.-sponsored imperialistic policies. The Guatemalan government and its Western allies labeled all university protests as communist insurgency to justify the murders and forced disappearances of USAC students and faculty committed by the state.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Insurgency; Communism; Marxism-Leninism; State-sponsored violence; Desaparecidos; Cold War; Partido Guatemalteca del Trabajo (PGT); Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario Robín García (FERG)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0022_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96745
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Leftist Graffiti At University Of San Carlos In Guatemala City
Date: 1982-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Graffiti in support of revolutionary leftist insurgent groups collect on a wall in the University of San Carlos campus in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 1, 1982. The university served as an active space of resistance throughout the domestic armed conflict, challenging the militarization and violence of the state and its U.S.-sponsored imperialistic policies. The Guatemalan government and its Western allies labeled all university protests as communist insurgency to justify the murders and forced disappearances of USAC students and faculty committed by the state.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Insurgency; Communism; Marxism-Leninism; State-sponsored violence; Desaparecidos; Cold War; Partido Guatemalteca del Trabajo (PGT); Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario Robín García (FERG)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0023_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96746
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Three Maya Ixil siblings, Marcelina Cedillo Marcos, right, her sister, left, and their younger brother, Pedro Cedillo Marcos, center, sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0006_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96729
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A young Maya Ixil man sits for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. The guerrilla organization Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, maintained a base of operations in the Ixil region during the armed conflict, and retaliation from the Guatemalan Armed Forces with an aggressive scorched-earth policy saw the destruction of villages and crops along with the mass murder and disappearance of Ixil civilians.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82; Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0007_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96730
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A young Maya Ixil girl wearing a traditional head dress, left, sits for a picture with her brother and sister in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0008_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96731
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Maya Ixil woman wearing a traditional head dress sits for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0009_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96732
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Maya Ixil man sits for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. The guerrilla organization Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, maintained a base of operations in the Ixil region during the armed conflict, and retaliation from the Guatemalan Armed Forces with an aggressive scorched-earth policy saw the destruction of villages and crops along with the mass murder and disappearance of Ixil civilians.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82; Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0010_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96733
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A young Maya Ixil woman wears a traditional head dress as she works in an open air kitchen in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0011_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96734
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Ana Raymundo Brito, center, 34 years, stands for a photograph with three of her 9 children in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0012_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96735
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Maya Ixil woman wearing a traditional head dress sits for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0025_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96748
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Petrona Brito, left, and her husband, right, sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. The Guatemalan army forced Brito's husband to join a civil defense patrol during the armed conflict, where he became sick from long exposures to cold weather and eventually succumbed to a respiratory illness. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities and were directed, often through coercion and force, by the Guatemalan army. PAC effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Counterinsurgency; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC); Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; State-sponsored violence
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Petrona Brito
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0026_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96749
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The husband of Petrona Brito sits for a picture in his home in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. The Guatemalan army forced him to join a civil defense patrol during the armed conflict, where he became sick from long exposures to cold weather and eventually succumbed to a respiratory illness. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities and were directed, often through coercion and force, by the Guatemalan army. PAC effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Counterinsurgency; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC); Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; State-sponsored violence
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0030_v01_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96753
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The husband of Petrona Brito sits for a picture in his home in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. The Guatemalan army forced him to join a civil defense patrol during the armed conflict, where he became sick from long exposures to cold weather and eventually succumbed to a respiratory illness. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities and were directed, often through coercion and force, by the Guatemalan army. PAC effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Counterinsurgency; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC); Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; State-sponsored violence
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0030_v02_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96754
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Two of Petrona Brito's children sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarifiaction Commision to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0031_v01_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96755
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Two of Petrona Brito's children sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army’s scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarifiaction Commision to determine the state’s actions to be “acts of genocide against groups of Maya people”.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0031_v02_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96756
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Residents of Nebaj, Guatemala
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Clara Luz Brito Raymundo, 8 years, stands for a picture wearing a traditional Maya Ixil head dress in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Genocide; Human rights violations; State-sponsored violence; Military; Counterinsurgency; Fernando Romeo Lucas García; Efraín Ríos Montt; Operation Sofía; Plan Victoria 82
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0016_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96739
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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