Guatemala's National Police Archive containing 80 million pages, detailing the brutal campaign of repression during the 36 year long Guatemalan Civil War, the longest civil war in Latin America.
200,000 Guatemalans (mostly Indians) were killed, and in the 1970s and 80s 50,000 leftists and political opponents dissapeared, kidnapped by right wing death squads, many operated by the National Police. This repression was carried out by a sucession of right wing governments usualy with the support and aid of the U.S. Government.
Radio seems to be the only medium that is covering this story. NPR ran this story a couple of weeks ago.
The director of the National Police from 1978 to 1982 -- during the height of urban political violence -- was Gen. German Chupina Barahona. Last month, a Spanish National Court judge issued an international arrest warrant for torture, murder and illegal detention against Chupina and seven other former security officials. The charge is considered more symbolic than enforceable...
Morning Edition
Today PRI's "The World" ran another story on the Archive.
PRI
Only Jimmy Carter had enough of a moral compass to cut off aid to the Guatemalan Government because of the murderous death squads being run by the National Police and the Military.
Guatemala's National Police Archives are now being digitized so the friends and relatives of the missing can find out what happened to their friends and loved ones.
Will these Archives also reveal a US roll in in these repugnant murders?