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A Mayan girl walks with an empty pail in her hand in the refugee camp of Benito Juárez, Chiapas. On September 29, 1982 more than one hundred armed Guatemalans had taken control of a small village nearby and, a Guatemalan paramilitary unit kidnapped two Guatemalans in Benito Juárez. Their mutilated bodies were later found in a river. Una niña maya camina con un cubo vacío en la mano en el campamento de refugiados de Benito Juárez, Chiapas. El 29 de septiembre de 1982, más de cien guatemaltecos armados tomaron el control de un pequeño pueblo cercano, y una unidad paramilitar guatemalteca secuestró a dos guatemaltecos en Benito Juárez. Sus cuerpos mutilados fueron encontrados más tarde en un río.
Documentary photographs Chiapas (Mexico)--History Refugee families Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Social conditions Refugees Refugee children Women refugees
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