Myrna’s work focused on the enormous population of the “internally displaced,” a phrase she helped popularize. Where the repression had been the worst, with entire communities destroyed, the army rebuilt villages to maximize its control. As one historian later put it, there was the “war of extermination” during the early 1980s, and the “war of reconstruction” that followed. The military assigned Orwellian names to these locales: they were “model villages,” “development poles,” or “strategic hamlets.” Two dozen of them were installed across the countryside. Daily life in these villages
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