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"The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The confluence of geological forces which meet at this fault pull the Caribbean Plate over the North American Plate at the unsettling geologic rate of just over ten meters every one hundred years. Uplift occurs at a regional scale and is seen in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, the highest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America. The geology is a deeply important circumstance; deposition has generated mineral-rich lowlands along the Pacific coast, and while the majority of the Cuchumatanes are covered in scrubby pine-oak forests, on the northern slopes temperate cloud forests persist. The highlands of the Cuchumatanes are home to the indigenous Ixil Maya people, who settled in three municipalities in the Quiché region. These municipalities, also known as the Ixil Triangle, are Santa Maria Nebaj, San Gaspar Chajul, and San Juan Cotzal. It is these very geological and ecological conditions that organized what historian Greg Grandin calls “the last colonial massacre”1 that saw, in the years between 1978 and 1983, thousands of the indigenous Ixil Maya people killed with around ninety villages destroyed. It is also these same geological and ecological conditions that would make the crimes of the state legible decades later. There are thirteen self-defined categories of investigation that Forensic Architecture, the research agency that investigates human rights violations, has undertaken: airstrikes, at sea, borders, chemical attacks, detention, disappearance, environmental violence, fire, forensic oceanography, heritage, land rights, migration, and police violence. In order to conduct these investigations, they have utilized fifteen methodologies: 3-D modeling, audio analysis, data mining, fluid dynamics, geolocation, ground truth, image complex, software development, pattern analysis, photogrammetry, reenactment, remote sensing, situated testimony, synchronization, and open-source intelligence (OSINT). At the time of writing, they have completed forty-three investigations."

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"The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The confluence of geological forces which meet at this fault pull the Caribbean Plate over the North American Plate at the unsettling geologic rate of just over ten meters every one hundred years. Uplift occurs at a regional scale and is seen in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, the highest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America. The geology is a deeply important circumstance; deposition has generated mineral-rich lowlands along the Pacific coast, and while the majority of the Cuchumatanes are covered in scrubby pine-oak forests, on the northern slopes temperate cloud forests persist. The highlands of the Cuchumatanes are home to the indigenous Ixil Maya people, who settled in three municipalities in the Quiché region. These municipalities, also known as the Ixil Triangle, are Santa Maria Nebaj, San Gaspar Chajul, and San Juan Cotzal. It is these very geological and ecological conditions that organized what historian Greg Grandin calls “the last colonial massacre”1 that saw, in the years between 1978 and 1983, thousands of the indigenous Ixil Maya people killed with around ninety villages destroyed. It is also these same geological and ecological conditions that would make the crimes of the state legible decades later. There are thirteen self-defined categories of investigation that Forensic Architecture, the research agency that investigates human rights violations, has undertaken: airstrikes, at sea, borders, chemical attacks, detention, disappearance, environmental violence, fire, forensic oceanography, heritage, land rights, migration, and police violence. In order to conduct these investigations, they have utilized fifteen methodologies: 3-D modeling, audio analysis, data mining, fluid dynamics, geolocation, ground truth, image complex, software development, pattern analysis, photogrammetry, reenactment, remote sensing, situated testimony, synchronization, and open-source intelligence (OSINT). At the time of writing, they have completed forty-three investigations."