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Three Dirges
Full Name Professor Class July 18 , 2009 Racism and Violence in Connelly 's the Three Dirges Marshall Bennett Connelly 's novel , Requiem Guatemala , recreates historical scenes from the Guatemalan civil war , which encompassed almost the entire second half of the twentieth century . The war between the government and the insurgents was particularly violent and oppressive . Most of the victims were civilians of indigenous descent and the war was also called a genocide . The violent conflict is an instance of the disastrous effects produce by the fight for political power
. What is significant about the war is that it is largely an example of discrimination and calculated genocide . Although the population of Guatemala is predominantly made of Indians , the Spaniards in the region have long abused the people of Mayan descent . According to Barbara Pando , the civil war emphasized the gap between the two cultures . In the early 1980 's , the war became synonymous with genocide , as the military forces of Guatemala turned began a murderous campaign which targeted the Maya peoples : The civil war took a turn for the worse in the early 1980 's , when the Guatemalan army , backed by the CIA , began a campaign of genocide against the Maya peoples (Pando 1 . Pando also remarks that the atmosphere in the region was particularly tensed due to the culture clash between the Spaniards and the Indians . The Maya peoples refuse to be assimilated in the Latino culture and are keen on defending their right to preserve their own traditions...
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