Transitional Justice and the Rio Negro Community in Guatemala
Almost 30 years after the end of the civil war in Guatemala, many crimes remain unsolved. An exemplary site for Guatemala's past is Rio Negro. In the 1980s, the residents of Rio Negro, Mayas from the Achí community, resisted the expropriation of their land and the relocation of their village, which was to make way for a dam project. During the so-called counterinsurgency led by dictator Ríos Montt, the village suffered several massacres, resulting in the deaths of over 400 people.