| guatemalan indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorism. | the effects of government-sponsored terrorism, characteristic of the contemporary central american civil wars, are particularly devastating to children. in guatemala, the mayan population felt the worst of a systematic and brutal counterinsurgency, where over 400 rural villages were destroyed between 1981 and 1983. this research is intended to elucidate selected characteristics of the psychosocial trauma of civil war as experienced by guatemalan mayan children, to describe some of the sociocultu ... | 1992 | 1604360 |