Plan de Sánchez
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'''Plan de Sánchez''' is a village in the municipality of [[Rabinal]], [[Baja Verapaz]] department, [[Guatemala]]. On [[July 18]] [[1982]], while General [[Efraín Ríos Montt]] was [[President of Guatemala]], a massacre was committed there by government forces in which over 200 people were killed. The massacre was a part of what is known as the scorched earth policy where the Guatemalan army eliminated up to 200,000 [[Maya peoples|Mayan]] and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] peoples in a 36-year [[Guatemalan Civil War|civil war]] until 1996. In 2000 [[President of Guatemala|President]] [[Alfonso Portillo]] admitted that the government was responsible for the massacre in the village.
==See also==
*[[Plan de Sánchez massacre]]
==Locator maps==
*{{coor dms|15|6|0|N|90|27|0|W|}} – Rabinal municipality
[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Guatemala]]
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