For example, in May 1999, the secret archive of a unit apparently controlled by Guatemala's military intelligence surfaced in the United States. Since then, victims of state terror have begun to come forward to accuse military heads of state and their functionaries for their involvement in some of these crimes. The process of terror that for so long made confronting the violence so difficult may finally be giving way to Guatemalans' desire for a clarification of the death squads and the forced disappearances. Still, given the weak, corrupt state of Guatemala's legal system, there is little guarantee that the terror's victims will receive justice any time soon. This report has attempted to document the extent of the state violence against the University.
Information is far from complete.
There are many cases of students and professors killed or disappeared which still have not appeared in the historical record. Oftentimes their families, out of fear, resisted denouncing the deaths of their loved ones. Despite the partial nature of the data, a few conclusions about the dynamic of organizing and repression are possible. The facts make clear that during the past decades the Guatemalan State has employed massive terrorist violence against the University of San Carlos. At certain points the violence has been determined by a counterinsurgency logic.