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Two Mayan women walk through a busy street in Chimaltenango. The woman on the left is holding a basket while the woman on the right is holding a bag. She is wearing a brown jacket. Walking behind them is an old man holding a cane and wearing a hat. On the right of the image there are three men standing idly. Two of them are leaning against a building wall. Walking in the opposite direction is a man wearing a hat and holding a weapon. Most soldiers forced to patrol as part of the "Patrol of Self-Defense" program in the 1980s were Mayan men. Patrols were used by the military to destroy civil organizing and to control any political networks of rural Mayans. The UN-administered Truth Commission, known as the Commission of Historical Clarification documented more tan 600 massacres committed by government forces against civilians in predominately Mayan areas between 1981 and 1983. Dos mujeres mayas caminan por una calle concurrida en Chimaltenango. La mujer de la izquierda sostiene una canasta mientras que la mujer de la derecha sostiene una bolsa. Ella lleva una chamarra café. Detrás de ellas se observa a un anciano caminando. El lleva un sombrero y un bastón. Sobre la derecha de la imagen se observan a tres hombres parados ociosamente. Dos de ellos yacen recargados sobre la pared. Caminando en dirección contraria se observa a un hombre con sombrero y sosteniendo un arma. La mayoría de los soldados obligados a patrullar como parte del programa "Patrulla de Autodefensa" en los ochenta eran hombres mayas. Las patrullas fueron utilizadas por los militares para destruir la organización civil y controlar a cualquier red política de los mayas rurales. La comisión de la verdad administrada por la ONU, conocida como la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, documentó más de 600 masacres cometidas por fuerzas gubernamentales contra civiles en áreas predominantemente mayas entre 1981 y 1983.
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