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About 200,000 Guatemalans where killed or "disappeared" in the forty years following the CIA coup in 1954, which installed a US backed military junta. The bloodiest phase of this repression occured in the 1981-1983 period, durin which, Guatemalan security forces massacred between 100,000 and 150,000 Guatemalans, mostly native Mayans accused of being leftist insurgents. The US government provided massive shipments of arms and provided training to aid in this "counterinsurgency" effort, which by the UN's definition constituted genocide, as it's primary targets where Mayans.

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