<P> Although the plan distinguished between the army's objectives regarding the FIL and the CCL, both groups were local unarmed campesinos living and working in the targeted areas of operation . The FIL were civilians whose routine labors continued--tending their crops in the field or their domestic responsibilities--while they contributed to self - defense actions to hinder the Army's activities . The CCL were local leaders, often communitarian authorities, who served as political representatives for the guerrilla . The death of these leaders was a priority for the Army because it signified the end of the political connection between the guerrilla units and their bases of social support . </P> <P> While wholesale killings of indigenous peasants escalated to unprecedented levels in the countryside, "death squad" killings in the cities decreased . A U.S. defense attaché report informed Washington in April 1982 that "The army intended to act with two sets of rules, one to protect and respect the rights of average citizens who lived in secure areas (mostly in the cities) and had nothing to do with subversion . The second set of rules would be applied to the areas where subversion was prevalent . In these areas (' war zones') the rules of unconventional warfare would apply . Guerrillas would be destroyed by fire and their infrastructure eradicated by social welfare programs ." </P> <P> Pursuant with the army's new "set of rules", Rios Montt began to make changes in the intelligence apparatus and disbanded--or renamed--some of the security structures which had become infamous for repression in the capital under previous regimes . In March 1982, shortly after the coup, Rios Montt disbanded the' Detectives Corps' of the National Police and replaced it with the' Department of Technical Investigations' (DIT). Additionally, Col. Germán Chupina Barahona--who was responsible for much of the repression in the capital under Lucas--was forced to resign and Col. Hernán Ponce Nitsch, a former instructor at the US Army School of the Americas, was appointed as director - general of the National Police . Col. Hector Ismael Montalván Batres was retained for a period as the chief of the EMP after the coup, due to his experience . </P> <P> Since the insurgency operated in remote rural areas, the application of "unconventional warfare" became less prevalent in the capital . According to some observers, the decline in extralegal tactics by the National Police and intelligence services and the passing of press censorship laws offered the regime some degree of plausible deniability and fostered the misconception on the outside and among city dwellers that political repression was on a downward trend in Guatemala . </P>

Give a brief description of what happened in guatemala starting in the 1960s