Indigenous peoples and rural peasants became the targets of a repressive counterinsurgency effort by the military that &quot; reached genocidal proportions in the early 1980s, executing scorched earth warfare tactics, mandatory paramilitary civilian self-defence patrols (PACs), forced resettlement camps, and the militarization of the entire administrative apparatus of the country &quot; .
Indigenous peoples and rural peasants became the targets of a repressive counterinsurgency effort by the military that &quot; reached genocidal proportions in the early 1980s, executing scorched earth warfare tactics, mandatory paramilitary civilian self-defence patrols (PACs), forced resettlement camps, and the militarization of the entire administrative apparatus of the country &quot; .