Dos Erres

Dos Erres is a village in the Petén department of Guatemala. The name, occasionally given as Las Dos Erres, literally means "2R's", originating from two brothers called Ruano who received the original land grant. On 6 December 1982, during the de facto presidency of General Efraín Ríos Montt, over 200 people – including women, the elderly, and children – were massacred there by government forces as a part of the government's scorched earth policy, in which up to 200,000 indigenous and Mayan people died.