Editing Amerindian Genocide (section)

==== [[Guatemalan Genocide]] ====
During the [[Guatemalan Civil War]], Guatemalan officials began persecuting Mayan civilians for allegedly supporting leftist rebels during the war as well as being viewed as sub-human. Mayan women were subjected to [[genocidal rape]] and abductions, while others were executed and dumped in unmarked graves. It is estimated that 150,000 Mayan civilians were killed during the genocide, while another 200,000 people fled the country and took refuge in southern Mexico. 

The most intense stage of the genocide took place during the presidency of General [[Efraín Ríos Montt]] from 1982 to 1983; he was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2013 and was sentenced to 80 years in prison, but that sentence was overturned and his retrial was not completed by the time of his death in 2018.