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| Foreword to the English Edition | |
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| Preface to the International Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Speech | |
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| On the Occasion of the Presentation of the REMHI Report Metropolitan Cathedral of Guatemala City, April 24, 1998 | |
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| Introductory Remarks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Value of Testimony | |
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| Social and Political Violence in Guatemala | |
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| Periods of Violence | |
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| The Impact of Militarization | |
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| Impunity | |
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| The Struggle for Memory | |
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| Glossary: Acronyms, Abbreviations, Organizations, and Spanish Words | |
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| The Impact of the Violence | |
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| Individual Effects of the Violence | |
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| The Immediate Impact | |
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| Ongoing Trauma | |
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| From Fear to Terror | |
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| A Strategy of Terror | |
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| No Way Out | |
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| Climate of Terror | |
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| The Social Effects of Fear | |
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| The Individual Effects of Fear | |
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| Fear as a Self-defense Mechanism | |
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| Ongoing Experiences of Fear | |
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| Altered Grieving Processes | |
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| Sociopolitical Violence and Altered Grief | |
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| Forced Disappearances | |
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| Blaming the Victims | |
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| Forced Collaboration | |
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| Political Activism: A Sense of Responsibility and Guilt | |
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| Between Words and Silence | |
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| The Wrath of Injustice | |
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| From Senselessness to Injustice | |
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| Powerlessness against Impunity | |
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| A Veneer of Normalcy | |
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| Questioning the Struggle | |
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| Destroying the Seed | |
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| Violence against Children | |
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| Children on the Run | |
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| The Militarization of Childhood | |
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| The Children of Violence | |
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| From Adoption to Abduction | |
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| The Will to Live | |
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| The Assault on Community | |
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| Collective and Community Destruction and Loss | |
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| Community Destruction | |
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| Community Breakdown and Crisis | |
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| Social Polarization | |
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| Persecution and Disruption of Daily Life | |
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| A Regimented Existence | |
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| Social Breakdown | |
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| The Militarization of Daily Life: The Impact of the Civil Patrols | |
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| Social Identity: Violence against Religion and Culture | |
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| Religious Changes | |
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| Loss of Traditional Authorities | |
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| Loss of Language | |
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| The Colors of Identity | |
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| Repairing the Social Fabric | |
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| Coping with Violence | |
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| The Population's Varied Experiences | |
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| Culture | |
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| Coping Strategies | |
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| The Experience of the Displaced | |
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| Large-scale Displacement | |
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| The Dynamics of Displacement: The Path of Flight | |
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| Seeking Refuge in Exile | |
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| Into the Hills: From Flight to Resistance | |
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| The Experience of the Communities of Popular Resistance (CPRs) | |
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| Reintegration Processes | |
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| Restoring Family Ties and Support | |
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| In Search of an Explanation | |
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| No Explanation or Individualized Explanations | |
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| Sociopolitical Conflict and Involvement | |
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| Interpersonal Explanations | |
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| Ethno-political Explanations | |
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| From Violence to the Affirmation of Women | |
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| Violence against Women | |
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| Women as Victims | |
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| "They Treated Us Worse than Animals" | |
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| Using Their Motherhood against Them | |
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| Cooking and Dancing for Their Assailants | |
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| Sexual Assault | |
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| Assaults on Bodies and on Dignity | |
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| Mass Rapes | |
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| The Significance of Rape | |
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| Other Forms of Torture Associated with Rape | |
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| A Counterinsurgency Method | |
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| The Consequences of Contempt | |
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| The Impact of Rape | |
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| Women's Resistance | |
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| Pulling Their Lives Together: Women's Roles and the Social Fabric | |
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| Creating New Spaces: Women's Activism | |
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| Never Again! Preventing a Recurrence | |
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| Truth, Justice, and Human Rights | |
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| The Defense of Human Rights | |
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| Discovering the Truth | |
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| Confronting the Causes | |
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| Social Change for Peace | |
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| Expectations for Peace | |
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| Reparations | |
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| The Methodology of Horror | |
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| The Intelligence Behind the Violence | |
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| The Intelligence Structure | |
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| The Dynamics of Violence; the Role of the Intelligence Services | |
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| The Name of Fear: La 2 | |
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| The Archivo: The Intelligence Division of the Presidential General Staff (EMP) | |
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| The Criminal Investigations Department and Other Police Entities | |
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| The Mobile Military Police (PMA) | |
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| The Treasury Guard | |
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| Intelligence Networks | |
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| Death Squads | |
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| Strategies of Control: Intelligence in Action | |
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| International Surveillance | |
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| Technology at the Service of Violence | |
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| Surveillance of Daily Life | |
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| Eradicating the Enemy Within | |
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| Targeting the People | |
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| Control of Hostile Populations | |
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| Involving the People in the War | |
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| A Strategy at the Village Level | |
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| The Civil Self-defense Patrols: The Militarization of Daily Life | |
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| A War Strategy | |
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| The Imposition and Formation of the Civil Patrols | |
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| Volunteers by Force | |
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| The Patrol Structure | |
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| Military Training and Patrols | |
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| Captures of Civilians | |
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| Massacres and Murders | |
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| Control over People's Movements | |
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| The Spoils of War | |
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| Solidarity and Resistance | |
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| The Methodology of Horror | |
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| Forced Recruitment | |
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| Special Forces | |
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| An Education in Violence | |
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| Fostering Violence | |
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| Compelled Obedience | |
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| Enforcing Complicity | |
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| Contempt for Human Life: "The Step of Death" | |
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| Extending Control | |
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| The Ways of Horror | |
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| Massacres: The Anatomy of Destruction | |
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| The Anguish of Torture | |
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| Threats | |
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| Abduction Procedures | |
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| Short-term Abduction or Detention | |
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| Forced Disappearances: A Smoke Screen | |
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| Executions: "Doing Someone In" | |
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| Infiltration | |
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| Torture Methods and Training | |
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| Induced Betrayal | |
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| Silenced Voices: The Unrecognized Prisoners of War | |
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| Character Transformation: Taking on the Oppressor's Identity | |
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| Clandestine Prisons | |
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| Psychosexual Control over the Troops | |
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| Preparing the Massacres | |
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| Concealing Infamy: Clandestine Cemeteries | |
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| Conclusions: From the Memory of Atrocities to the Violence of Today | |
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| In Search of an Explanation | |
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| Violence in the Postwar Period | |
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| The Struggle to Reclaim Memory | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| Background | |
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| From Barrios to Ponce Vaides | |
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| The October Revolution | |
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| The Protagonism of the Catholic Church | |
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| The 1954 Coup d'Etat | |
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| The Armed Conflict in the Sixties | |
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| The November 13 Revolt | |
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| The Incipient Guerrilla Movement | |
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| The Trecistas | |
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| Spotlight on Concua | |
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| FAR (Rebel Armed Forces) | |
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| The 1963 Coup d'Etat | |
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| The Mendez Montenegro Government | |
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| The Pact with the Army | |
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| Army Reorganization | |
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| Paramilitary Groups | |
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| Escalating Violence | |
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| The Decline of the Guerrillas | |
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| The Catholic Church | |
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| The Military Governments of the Seventies | |
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| The Military Project | |
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| The Arana Government | |
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| Political Terror | |
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| Power Alliances | |
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| The Laugerud Government | |
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| Grassroots Struggle | |
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| Other Trends | |
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| An Intolerant Business Sector | |
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| Renewed Land Seizures | |
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| The Deterioration of the Electoral System | |
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| The Rise of the Indigenous Movement | |
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| Evolution of the New Guerrilla Movement | |
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| The Evolution of Counterinsurgency | |
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| The Lucas Era | |
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| Conspicuous Crimes | |
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| The Counterinsurgency Offensives | |
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| Changing and Uncertain Times | |
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| The Counterinsurgency Strategy | |
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| "Scorched Earth" | |
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| The Insurgents' Strategy | |
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| "The People's War" | |
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| The Poor against the Rich | |
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| The Victims | |
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| The Catholic Church | |
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| Training Centers | |
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| Political Polarization | |
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| Lucas's Demise | |
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| The Rios Montt Government | |
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| A Turning Point in History | |
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| The New Counterinsurgency | |
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| The Military Offensives of 1982-1983 | |
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| The Ixil Region | |
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| Clearing out the Border Area | |
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| Offensives in the Central Corridor | |
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| Alta and Baja Verapaz | |
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| The Capital and the Coast | |
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| Quetzaltenango | |
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| The Church Targeted | |
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| The Mejia Victores Government | |
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| The Cerezo Government | |
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| The Transition, 1986-1987 | |
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| Concertacion | |
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| The Initial Agreements | |
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| The Tensions Begin | |
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| Rumbling in the Barracks | |
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| The Power of the New Right-wing Business Elite | |
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| A No-win Battle | |
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| The Power of El Sindicato | |
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| National Stability Doctrine | |
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| The Year-end Offensive | |
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| Active Neutrality | |
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| The "Message System" and Other Methods | |
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| The Conspiracy, 1988-1989 | |
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| Coup Attempts | |
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| The "Dirty War" | |
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| Diplomacy and Terror | |
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| The Collapse of Stability | |
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| The Army Loses Leadership | |
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| The Casualties | |
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| The Serrano Elias Government | |
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| The Business Candidate | |
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| Battles over Peace | |
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| Waging War | |
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| A Climate of Insecurity | |
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| The Advent of Globalization | |
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| Other Areas of Civil Society | |
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| Army Reassignments | |
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| Preparing for the Postwar Period | |
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| Into the Void | |
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| Ramiro de Leon and the Business Community | |
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| Power Struggles | |
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| Peace Negotiations | |
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| The War Continues | |
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| The URNG and the Signing of the Peace Accord | |
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| The Business Candidate's Victory | |
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| Peace against All Odds | |
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| The Victims of the Conflict | |
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| The Data Compiled by the Remhi Project | |
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| Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law | |
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| The Magnitude of the Violence | |
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| The Violations | |
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| Accountability | |
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| Periods of Violence | |
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| The Characteristics of Genocide | |
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| Patterns of Violations | |
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| Violations of the Right to Life | |
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| Extra-judicial Executions | |
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| Forced Disappearances | |
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| Death as a Result of Persecution | |
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| Casualties of Indiscriminate Attacks | |
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| Massacres | |
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| Violations of the Right to Physical and Psychological Integrity | |
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| Torture and Cruel Treatment | |
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| Rapes | |
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| Attacks | |
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| Violations of the Right to Personal Security | |
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| Violations of the Right to Personal Liberty | |
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| Irregular Detentions | |
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| General Statistics | |
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| Violations by Historical Period (Victims) | |
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| Massacres | |
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| Distributed by Department and Year | |
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| Distributed by Month and Year | |
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| Responsible Force | |
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| Responsible Force | |
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| Violations against Life by Incidents and Victims | |
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| Distribution by Historical Period by Incidents and Victims | |
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| Massacres Distributed by Department and Year | |
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| Violations by Department (1) | |
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| Violations by Department (2) | |
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| Violations by Department (3) | |
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| The Path to Social Reconstruction Recommendations of the Remhi Project | |
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| Repairing the Damage | |
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| Reparations | |
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| Humanitarian Assistance for Victims and Survivors (Medical, Psychological, Social, and Legal Reparations) | |
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| Collective Memory | |
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| Statement of Government Responsibility | |
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| Official History | |
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| Investigation of Cases: Statements concerning the Disappeared | |
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| Honoring the Victims | |
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| Exhumations | |
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| Restoring Memory to the People | |
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| The Role of Other Social Sectors | |
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| The Religious Community: Demands and Expectations | |
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| International Presence | |
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| The URNG | |
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| Preventing Human Rights Violations | |
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| Respect for Human Rights | |
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| Justice and Social Sanctions | |
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| Preventing Social and Community Violence | |
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| Legislative and Judicial Reforms | |
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| Methods for Monitoring Law Enforcement | |
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| Traditional Authority and Law | |
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| The Judiciary | |
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| Social Changes for Peace | |
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| Demilitarization | |
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| Exercising Personal Freedoms | |
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| Addressing the Land Issue | |
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| Bibliography | |