Ixil
The Ixil are an indigenous people in Guatemala to which almost 100,000 people belong.
They belong to the Maya group and live in the Quiché department, particularly in the communities of Santa Maria Nebaj , San Gaspar Chajul and San Juan Cotzal in the north-western highlands of Guatemala. The region is also called "Ixil triangle" (triángulo ixil) after these three Ixil cities .
The Ixil language is part of the Quiché-Mam branch of the Maya languages .
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Ixil area was an important theater of war in the Guatemalan Civil War , with the military governments seeking to remove the ground from the insurgents through a " scorched earth " policy (tierra arrasada) . Particularly under the dictatorship of General Efraín Ríos Montt , there were serious massacres, in which a sixth of the Ixil population was killed. The advocacy group of indigenous peoples Waqib Kej wrote a letter to the UN in 2011 , accusing Pérez Molina of having been actively involved in genocide, torture and the destruction of numerous villages. In 2013, the Guatemalan Supreme Court ordered the government to apologize to the Ixil, calling it genocide during the civil war .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 95,315 (0.8%) according to XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico . Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved on December 22, 2009.
- ↑ Guatemala: Memoria del Silencio - Agudización de la violencia y militarización del Estado (1979-1985)
- ^ Allegation Letter sent to UN . Guatemala Human Rights Commission. July 6, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ^ Ian Bremmer: In Guatemala, troubles ahead and troubles behind . Foreign Policy. July 21, 2011. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved on July 23, 2011.
- ↑ Denuncian a Pérez Molina por genocidio y tortura de indígenas en Guatemala ( Spanish ) Europa Press. July 20, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ^ Article in the TAZ about the court decision of the Supreme Court
literature
- Benjamin N. Colby (1976): The Anomalous Ixil - Bypassed by the Postclassic? American Antiquity (Menasha, WI: Society for American Archeology ) 41 (1): pp. 74-80. ISSN 0002-7316 . OCLC 1479302 .
- Benjamin N. Colby, Lore M. Colby (1981): The Daykeeper: The Life and Discourse of an Ixil Diviner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-19409-8 .
- Benjamin N. Colby, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe (1969): Ixil Country: A Plural Society in Highland Guatemala. Berkeley: University of California Press.
