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Colonel [[Carlos Arana Osorio]] took power in 1970 and killed over 7,000 people in each year of his rule. Diplomats in Guatemala City believed that right-wing forces killed 15 times as many people as the guerrillas and revolutionaries. | Colonel [[Carlos Arana Osorio]] took power in 1970 and killed over 7,000 people in each year of his rule. Diplomats in Guatemala City believed that right-wing forces killed 15 times as many people as the guerrillas and revolutionaries. | ||
By 1976, the police, military, and death squads had killed over 20,000 people. Many bodies were thrown into rivers or the Pacific Ocean. In the Gualán area, people stopped fishing because they found so many corpses in the rivers. Suspected guerrillas were tortured with insecticide or electric shocks. Many people were found with their eyes gouged out or their tongues and hands removed. The U.S. used F-51 planes to drop napalm over suspected guerrilla areas, similar to the [[Vietnam War]]. The [[Guatemalan Army of the Poor]] was formed in 1976 to resist the junta.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=William Blum|year=2004|title=Killing Hope|title-url=https://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope|chapter=Guatemala, 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized “final solution”|chapter-url=https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/guatemala|publisher=Common Courage Press|isbn=9781567512526}}</ref> | By 1976, the police, military, and death squads had killed over 20,000 people. Many bodies were thrown into rivers or the Pacific Ocean. In the Gualán area, people stopped fishing because they found so many corpses in the rivers. Suspected guerrillas were tortured with insecticide or electric shocks. Many people were found with their eyes gouged out or their tongues and hands removed. The U.S. used F-51 planes to drop napalm over suspected guerrilla areas, similar to the [[Vietnam War]]. The [[Guatemalan Army of the Poor]] was formed in 1976 to resist the junta.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=William Blum|year=2004|title=Killing Hope|title-url=https://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope|chapter=Guatemala, 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized “final solution”|chapter-url=https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/guatemala|publisher=Common Courage Press|isbn=9781567512526}}</ref> |