Skip to content
User:SSCreader · CC BY 4.0
Conflict Americas

Guatemalan Civil War

1960 CE – 1996 CE · 36 years

A 36-year civil war that escalated into genocide against the indigenous Maya population in the early 1980s. The UN truth commission found the military responsible for 93% of the 200,000 deaths, including systematic massacres, forced disappearances, and scorched-earth campaigns.

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Guatemalan Civil War on Wikipedia.

Read the article Open on Wikipedia ↗

Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Guatemalan Government & Military
  • Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)

Key moments

Defining events in the Guatemalan Civil War.

  1. 1982-1983 Ixil Triangle campaigns
  2. 1982 Operation Sophia
  3. 1981-1983 Silent Holocaust

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

British Guiana

1783 CE – 1966 CE

Conflict · Americas

Salvadoran Civil War

1979 CE – 1992 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Americas

Falklands War

1982 CE

Landmark · Americas

Hawaii Volcanoes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1960 CE and 1996 CE.

1964 CE Colombian Armed Conflict 1964 CE Fly Geyser 1965 CE Dominican Civil War 1969 CE Football War 1976 CE Dirty War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Darvaza Gas Crater Landmark · Middle East 1971 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Winston Churchill Figure · Britain 1874 CE – 1965 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency Conflict · South Asia 1967 CE – 2026 CE Great Mosque of Touba Landmark · Africa 1963 CE – still standing Yugoslavia Polity · Europe 1918 CE – 1992 CE
Image credits9 pictures from Wikimedia Commons