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Three young refugee girls stand barefoot in front of a wooden hut. The girls in worn out dresses hold their hair back in pony tails. Jars, plastic sheets, tables and wooden logs surround them. A young boy in the background stands on the doorway of the hut. 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. Tres niñas refugiadas están descalzas frente a una choza de madera. Las niñas con vestidos desgastados retienen su cabello en colas de caballo. Recipientes, láminas de plástico, mesas y ramas de madera las rodean. Un niño en el fondo se encuentra en la entrada de la choza. Para 1984, 46,000 refugiados guatemaltecos estaban en el sur de México. Entre 1981 y 1983, la estrategia de contrainsurgencia del ejército guatemalteco se dirigió a la población maya que se creía que estaba apoyando al movimiento guerrillero. El ejército cometió cientos de masacres y fue responsable por actos de genocidio contra la población maya, según el informe de la Comisión de Clarificación Histórica de Guatemala de 1994.
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