Displaced by Chixoy Dam
The Chixoy Dam forcefully displaced more than 3, the Guatemalan Army and state-sponsored paramilitary groups massacred 5, 000 people in the region between 1980 and 1982 in what is known as the Río Negro massacres. This occurred under the backdrop of the Guatemalan Civil War. (Pictured: a memorial to victims of the Río Negro massacres.), 500 Maya Achi people. Following popular protest against the relocations
About this community
- Dam
- Chixoy Dam
- River
- Chixoy River
- Established
- 1976
- Inundated
- 1976 to 1983
- Population
- 3,500
Sources
- https://www.internationalrivers.org/where-we-work/latin-america/mesoamerica/chixoy/
- https://biblioteca.cejamericas.org/bitstream/handle/2015/1498/Chixoy-Dam-Legacies-The-Struggle-to-Secure-Reparation-and-the-Right-to-Remedy-in-Guatemala.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chixoy_Hydroelectric_Dam