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Guatemala: Information on forced recruitment of youths by guerrilla forces, 1989-1991

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 March 1991
Citation / Document Symbol GTM8160
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Guatemala: Information on forced recruitment of youths by guerrilla forces, 1989-1991, 1 March 1991, GTM8160, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abd564.html [accessed 18 May 2023]
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As discussed by telephone, information on the requested subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. Please find attached the following documents which contain references to guerrilla recruitment, actions upon seizing a village and the difficulty of documenting guerrilla abuses in the remote areas where they normally operate:

-Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis (Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), pp. 59-60;

-Human Rights in Guatemala During President Cerezo's First Year (Washington, D.C./New York: Americas Watch, 1987), p. 56;

-Guatemala: Eternal Spring - Eternal Tyranny (New York/London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987), pp. 131, 133.

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