than 5000 have his regime.
This report came from Rev Laus Fernando Garcia Guatemalan priest, the who recently visited London He said that one person in every seven is living rough in the open terrified that they might be caught the army and massacred. *The army are systematically attacking rural villages, killing men women and children not with bullets, but through chopping them to death with machetes.
"They pour petrol on children and burn them, pregnant women, rape them and hang them upside trom tree: and cut their wombs.
terror well documented by the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission but died in the first five months of despite the evidence the US is in a big hurry to cosy up to General Montt.
The Pentagon's chief military officer in Latin America, General Wallace Notting, declared earlier this year that the implications of a Marxist takeover In Guatemala are a lot serious than in EI Salvador - the population is larger, the economy stronger, the geographical DOSItiOr more critically located in a strategic sense.
He went on to say the United States should plas essentially the same role i Guatemala as it does in Nottings remarks are part of the effort by the Reagan administration to justify Postors US military aid the Guatemalan dictatorship.
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Montt took power in a coup in March the massacres and deaths of Guatemalan people has increased greatly. Despite Montt consider- ing himself the 'saviour' of the people more