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A refugee woman wearing a dress and apron builds a fence of small logs. The barefoot woman holds a log in mid-air to hammer down the fence of logs. A small girl walks around fence holding a blanket with her left hand and a nude baby doll on her right hand. By 1984, 46,000 Guatemalan refugees were in southern Mexico. Between 1981 and 1983, the Guatemalan army's counterinsurgency strategy targeted the Mayan population who were believed to be supporting the guerilla movement. The military committed hundreds of massacres and was responsible for acts of genocide against the Mayan population, according to the report of the 1994 Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission. Una mujer refugiada que lleva un vestido y un delantal construye una cerca de troncos pequeños. La mujer descalza sostiene un tronco en el aire para golpear la cerca de troncos. Una niña pequeña camina alrededor de la cerca sosteniendo una manta con su mano izquierda y una muñeca desnuda en su mano derecha. Para 1984, 46,000 refugiados guatemaltecos estaban en el sur de México. Entre 1981 y 1983, la estrategia de contrainsurgencia del ejército guatemalteco se enfocó en la población maya, la cual se creía apoyaba al movimiento guerrillero. El ejército cometió cientos de masacres y fue responsable por actos de genocidio en contra de la población maya, de acuerdo con el informe de la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico de Guatemala de 1994.
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