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Guatemala:
400
Massacre
Victims
Reported
This
Year
Guatemala
-
More
than
400
massacre
victims
by
have
been
reported
nationwide
this
year
to
date,
according
to a
violence
monitoring
organization,
the
Mutual
Support
Group
(GAM),
on
Wednesday.
The
GAM
sent
its
July
report
to
the
media,
including
a
section
devoted
to
figures
on
massacres
from
January
to
date.
The
organization
says
the
practice
of
mass
murders
had
disappeared
after
a
reported
1,115
such
killings
carried
out
by
the
army
during
the
country's
36-year
internal
armed
conflict
(1960-1996).
Leading
up
to
the
Sept.
11
elections,
the
political
violence
reported
is
much
worse
than
before,
the
group
said.
In
the
first
half
of
2011,
a
total
of
1,950
murders
were
reported
in
the
country,
two
points
higher
than
the
same
period
of
2010,
said
GAM
sources.
In
the
context
of
that
increase,
the
horror
is
magnified
with
massacres,
dismemberments
and
torture,
and
the
dead
and
injured
include
men,
women
and
children,
the
group
said.
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