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Very good. vi, 283, [5] pages. Illustrations. Appendices A-I (includes Tables, Maps), Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated front cover. Text on rear cover. This is one of the SUNY Series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues. Professor Beatriz Manz was born in rural southern Chile. The ethnographic research for her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology was based on fieldwork in the highlands of Guatemala. The focus of her research has remained contemporary Mayan communities in Guatemala. Her book Refugees of a Hidden War: the Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala examined the displacement and human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan military against indigenous rural communities in the highlands and rainforest, as well as in the refugee camps in the Mexican Lacandón region. Prof. Manz has had a long-term interest in human rights and justice and has been involved with several international, governmental and non-governmental institutions, such as the UNHCR, UNDP, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Center for Justice and Accountability. She testified before the U.S. Congress about human rights abuses in Guatemala. She appeared at the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's National Court) to provide expert testimony in the Guatemala Genocide case in 2008. In 2013 Prof. Manz was called as an expert and eyewitness at the genocide trial in Guatemala City against General Montt. Her testimony was based on her field research in the 1980s in the Ixil highlands, the Ixcán rainforest and Lacandón, Chiapas, Campeche and Quintana Roo refugee camps. Political violence and military repression have displaced some two million people in Central America in the 1980s. While conflict elsewhere in Central America has received considerable attention, the war against an unarmed civilian population in Guatemala has largely been hidden from the outside world. The military have waged a particularly brutal and extensive counter-insurgency campaign, leaving thousands dead and prompting several hundred thousand to flee to neighboring countries. In Refugees of a Hidden War, the author examines in detail three predominantly Indian regions in northern Guatemala, reconstructing the devastation and its aftermath from the perspective of those who lived through it and its impact on the culture of the Maya Indian peasants. Individual community experiences are placed in the context of the country's pattern of land ownership and unequal exercise of political and economic power, typical of Central America. Manz also assesses the critical situation of Guatemalan refugees in southern Mexico and the prospects for their repatriation. Refugees of a Hidden War presents the first extensive fieldwork in Guatemala since the mass violence of the early 1980s. This micro look at Guatemalan community life provides important insights on the roots of conflict in Central America.
