Plan de Sánchez 1617059 205318553 2008-04-13T12:56:51Z Rettetast 2267145 [[User:Lightmouse/monobook.js/script.js|Script]] assisted. Units/dates/other '''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]] {{Guatemala-geo-stub}}