An estimated 200,000 Guatemalans were killed during the war including at least 40,000 persons who "disappeared". 93% of civilian executions were carried out by government forces. The UN-sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) documented 42,275 victims of human rights violations and acts of violence from 7,338 testimonies. 83% of the victims were Maya and 17% Ladino. In its final report in 1999, the CEH concluded that a genocide had taken place at the hands of the Armed Forces of Guatemala, and that US training of the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques "had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation" but that the US was not directly responsible for any genocidal acts.Guatemala, 1981–1984 . Rutgers–Newark Colleges of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 29 October 2016. Former military dictator General Efrain Ríos Montt (1982–1983) was indicted for his role in the most intense stage of the genocide. He was convicted in 2013, but that sentence was overturned and his retrial was not completed by the time of his death in 2018.
