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Plan de Sánchez

In 2000 President Alfonso Portillo admitted that the government was responsible for the massacre in the village.



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Plan de Sánchez massacre

On 2 September 1996, Ombudsman Jorge Mario García Laguardia issued a historic resolution in which he denounced the massacre of Plan de Sánchez (and two others that took place in Rabinal the same year: Chichupac and Río Negro) as crimes against humanity, laid the blame for them firmly at the feet of the government and the military, and said that they had been carried out as part of a premeditated state policy.