Genocide, Murders of Catholic Religious, Emerge in Guatemala Trial

First, they came for the priests, the catechists, Maya spiritual guides, community leaders. Beginning in the 1970s soldiers arrived in towns and villages in the remote Guatemalan region called the Ixil Triangle with an informant, who typically wore a black hood with holes cut for the eyes. The collaborator, often a local resident, pointed out individuals that soldiers were looking for, and the soldiers killed them.