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Weekly Report - 4 January 2007
GUATEMALA: Ten years on, peace remains distant
Guatemala reached a significant landmark on 29 December: the tenth anniversary of the signing of a peace accord which brought to an end the 36-year civil war. The former guerrilla group, Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), which became a political party in 1998, refused to take part in the official events marking the occasion on the grounds that little had been achieved in the last 10 years.
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