Command Responsibility and the Guatemalan Genocide: Genocide as a Military Plan of the Guatemalan Army under the Dictatorships of Generals Lucas Garcia, Rios Montt, and Mejia Victores

Drawing on forensic investigations conducted by the author in the Ixil Area of Guatemala, interviews with international observers, and ethnographic research among the Ixil Maya as well as extensive review of declassified United States government documents and newspaper accounts of the military regime of General Efrain Rios Montt, the author provides evidence that the massacres of Ixil Maya in Guatemala formed a part of a planned genocide and that Rios Montt has command responsibility for the genocide.