Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-332).
Foreword to the English Edition / Thomas Quigley -- Speech: On the Occasion of the Presentation of the REMHI Report Metropolitan Cathedral of Guatemala City, April 24, 1998 -- Pt. 1. The Impact of the Violence -- 1. Individual effects of the Violence -- 2. Destroying the Seed -- 3. The Assault on Community -- 4. Coping with Violence -- 5. From Violence to the Affirmation of Women -- 6. Never Again! Preventing a Recurrence -- Pt. 2. The Methodology of Horror -- 7. The Intelligence behind the Violence -- 8. Targeting the People -- 9. The Methodology of Horror -- Conclusions. From the Memory of Atrocities to the Violence of Today -- Pt. 3. The Historical Context -- 10. Background -- 11. The Armed Conflict in the Sixties -- 12. The Military Governments of the Seventies -- 13. The Rios Montt Government -- 14. The Mejia Victores Government -- 15. The Cerezo Government -- 16. The Serrano Elias Government -- 17. Preparing for the Postwar Period -- Pt. 4. The Victims of the Conflict -- 18. The Data Compiled by the REMHI Project -- 19. General Statistics -- The Path to Social Reconstruction Recommendations of the REMHI Project