Among the victims is a child and a policeman. The conflict would have arisen from territorial disputes between two municipalities in the country.
More than one a hundred policemen and soldiers With rifles they guarded this Sunday an indigenous area in western Guatemala after the massacre of 13 people, among them children and a policeman, linked to an old territorial conflict between two municipalities.
The public force bet on the roadside Interamericana, near the dirt road that leads to the Chiquix village, in the Nahualá municipality, 171 km west of the capital, where the massacre occurred between Friday and Saturdayobserved an AFP team.
The uniformed men, equipped with riot gear, gathered before the start of a security operation before temotions of a new outbreak of violencea police officer told AFP under anonymity.
Some people circulated in pick-ups and minibuses to the communities of Nahualá and the neighboring Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán – faced by the centuries-old conflict for the control of bordering territories, where there are forests and streams– under the watchful eye of the agents and without stopping to speak.
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The authorities had not given the identity of the dead so far and the Prosecutor’s Office indicated on Twitter that “Processed the crime scene”, where a semi-burned truck and a bullet-perforated patrol were also located.
The dead cop was identified as Luis Reinoso, 34 years old.
For his part, the Human Rights Ombudsman, Jordán Rodas, deplored in a statement the slaughter which, according to that institution, occurred when a family who was going to “levacuate their crops “ it was “ambushed by a group of men who carried heavy caliber weapons ”. The local press pointed out that the victims were going to collect corn.
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Rodas recommended to the president, Alejandro Giammattei, “give the highest priority to the dire security situation in the area, as there are indications that the most recent armed attacks have gone beyond the historical border conflict.
In May of last year, shortly after a new escalation of violence between the two municipalities inhabited by indigenous Maya, Giammattei decreed a state of siege and installed a commission to try to resolve the conflict.
Indigenous communities, many of whom live in conditions of poverty, represent more than 40% of the almost 17 million Guatemalans, according to official figures. (I)
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