BREAKING DOWN RESPONSIBILITIES: A Significant disparity.
The Guatemala government during the Civil War has motivated its repressive action as a response to the guerrilla and insurgency groups. However an analysis of the known perpetrators of registered human rights violations highlights that the State's use of violence has been an excessive and unjustifiable reaction. |
The Guatemala Army, in particular, has been found responsible of a such a high number of crimes that it is not comparable to that of any other of the forces involved in the conflict. |
* In the "State agents responsible for violations" chart the total percentage is more than 100%. This because in some cases the violence has been carried out by more State agents combined.