This book challenges how the human rights movement thinks about a countrynotorious for rightwing terrorism. David Stolls reinterpretation of the civilwar in Gua... » 

This book challenges how the human rights movement thinks about a countrynotorious for rightwing terrorism. David Stolls reinterpretation of the civilwar in Guatemala focuses on the Ixil Mayas of the Western highlands. Based ontheir testimony he attributes Ixil support for guerrillas in the early 1980snot to revolutionary impluses but to dual violence the coercive pressures ofmilitary confrontation which Ixils describe as living between two fires. As astudy of a peasant neutralism under crossfire Between Two Armies questionswhether confrontational forms of human rights organizing reflect the wishes ofsurvivors trying to rebuild civil society that is political space to maketheir own decisions. «