Operacion Sofia In The Military

Population resettlement was the moving of entire villages to other locations that are controlled. Often, violence is needed to force people to move from their homes. In these controlled areas, there was not sufficient enough resources as there lacked food, water, and medicine. Many of those who were relocated would perish. An element of population resettlement were scorched earth campaigns which was conducted under the declassified Operation Sofia. The original Operacion Sofia was discovered and found. Operation was a detailed planning of the counterinsurgency method scorched earth. This a 395-paged document that is detailed with the scorched earth policy and it is composed of telegrams, maps, and code deciphering glossaries. Letterheads, and signatures are commanders who operated under Ríos Montt. This image is map in which the military documented contact with
Women had prepared food for the guerrillas making them collaborators and complicit. Children were potential future recruits for the guerrillas and thus they were a liability for the military. In When the Mountains Tremble, a documentary by Pamela Yates, it shows a clip of a group of guerrillas entering a village. When the guerrillas enter the village, the group comes speaking of change. The indigenous feed the group and bid them farewell. This action makes the indigenous complicit in the eyes of the government. The motive of the killing was to take over subversives. The military rationale for killing was that the people who were killed, were killed because they subversives, not because they were indigenous. The military explained subversion as a virus, that infected children, men, and women. Subversives needed to be annihilated and were referred to as “beasts and demons.” The military produced the argument that the guerrillas were to blame for the need of the