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    The Ixil Community is a name given to three neighbouring towns in the Quiché department in the western highlands of Guatemala. These towns are Santa María...
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    and permanent communities. The Ixil language belongs to the Mamean branch of Mayan languages and has two dialects: Ixil Nebajeño and Ixil Chajuleño. It...
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    Ixil (Ixhil) is a Mayan language spoken in Mexico and Guatemala. It is the primary language of the Ixil people, which mainly comprises the three towns...
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  • Ixil may refer to Ixil language, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala Ixil people, an indigenous Maya people in El Quiché Department, Guatemala Ixil Community...
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    part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul. Native residents speak the Mayan Ixil language. The community is named in...
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  • Guatemalan department of El Quiché. San Juan Cotzal is part of the Ixil Community, along with Santa María Nebaj and San Gaspar Chajul. Worried about the...
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    He was convicted in 2013 of ordering the deaths of 1,771 people of the Ixil Indigenous group, but that sentence was overturned, and his retrial was not...
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    reserve, also known as Biósfera Ixil, is located in the North-East of Chajul, on the communal lands of the Ixil communities. See also Romeo Tiu López. "Mayan...
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    Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and Santa María Nebaj. The Ixil region is isolated by beautiful mountains and has maintained its rich Ixil...
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  • 1985. He investigated the role of and impact upon the native Maya Ixil communities of Santa Maria Nebaj of the Guatemalan Civil War, at the peak of its...
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    Efraín Ríos Montt. Pérez commanded a counterinsurgency team in the Ixil Community in 1982-3 and is accused of ordering the mass murder of civilians, destruction...
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  • also known as Biósfera Ixil, and is located in the North of the municipality of Chajul, on the communal lands of the Ixil communities. The creation of the...
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    operations in the Ixil Community in the early 1980s during which several massacres against the Ixil Mayas took place. The violence against the Ixil was acknowledged...
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    Ixil Municipality (IPA: [iˈʃil], in the Yucatec Maya Language: “place of bristles”) is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (134.13 km2)...
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    the Spanish, the Ixil and Uspantek Maya were sufficiently isolated to evade immediate Spanish attention. The Uspantek and the Ixil were allies and in...
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  • re-education program for Maya survivors The Ixil Operation Manual provides a “psychological campaign to rescue the Ixil mentality” in which Maya were to be taught...
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    genocide for the killing and disappearances of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Maya during his 1982–83 rule. The charges of genocide were based on the "Memoria...
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    Ixils were considered public enemies of the state and were also victims of racism, considered an inferior race... The violent acts against the Ixils were...
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    The Maya people of the Guatemala highlands include the Achi, Akatek, Chuj, Ixil, Jakaltek, Kaqchikel, Kʼicheʼ, Mam, Poqomam, Poqomchiʼ, Qʼanjobʼal, Qʼeqchiʼ...
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    Akatek language Quichean–Mamean branch: Mam language, Tektitek language, Ixil, Kʼicheʼ language, Kaqchikel and Q'eqchi'. Language isolates: Seri Tequistlatecan...
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    the Spanish, the Ixil and Uspantek Maya were sufficiently isolated to evade immediate Spanish attention. The Uspantek and the Ixil were allies and in...
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    Maya, a nonprofit network of 15 Maya communities to provide Yucatecan ingredients, such as white Naal Teel corn, Ixil onions, Xtop pepita, bee larva, and...
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    report on Nebaj Ixil Archived 2008-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, Chajul Ixil Archived 2006-12-08 at the Wayback Machine & San Juan Cotzal Ixil, accessed March...
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  • Stanford: Stanford University Press. (1997) Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s. Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos. (1995) "Matthew...
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    Q'eqchi' Maya communities.[1] It is a project of the Plan Puebla Panama. The dam is opposed by the Organizational Commission of the Community Consultation...
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  • majority can only speak English. The Argobba have typically been a merchant community and usually trades with other ethnic groups; recently, these factors have...
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  • Awakateko (agu), Ch'orti' (caa), Chicomuceltec (cob), Chuj (cac), Itza' (itz), Ixil (ixl), Jakalteko (jac), K'iche' (quc), Kaqchikel (cak), Mam (mam), Maya/Mopán...
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  • Kʼicheʼ people, while in the Sierra communities they were mostly Ixil people, as well as Ladino people. The communities visited highlighted the coexistence...
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  • of the ceremony through calendrical divination. The medicine men of the Ixil Maya of Guatemala, who kept track of days in their heads, would lay out red...
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    population in the Gaza Strip. "Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people". OHCHR. 16 November...
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