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Background on the Dam and the Massacre
In the late 1970s the government of Guatemala decided to construct a large hydroelectric dam on the Chixoy River, or Rio Negro (Black River). One of the communities affected, also called Rio Negro, suffered a series of murderous attacks in 1982, just as the dam was being built.
The following year, 1983, the valley was flooded. Those inhabitants of Rio Negro who survived hid in the mountains, and were eventually resettled in a shanty town named Pacux on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Rabinal.
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