However, data problems and implementation difficulties far beyond any measures previously known or planned were also experienced. Solving these issues has entailed considerable unplanned effort and consequentially created additional resource requirements.

303. It is noted with deep concern that because of the armed conflict there still exists in Guatemalan society a significant degree of militarization which contributes consequentially to the phenomenon whereby members of the armed forces have committed excesses against the civilian population in general and members of indigenous communities in particular.