Guatemala: Guatemalan Former Soldiers Sentenced To 6,060 Years For Massacre

Guatemala: Guatemalan Former Soldiers Sentenced To 6,060 Years For Massacre   A judge in Guatemala City yesterday sentenced four former soldiers from an elite army unit to more than 6,000 years in prison for their role in a 1982 massacre in Dos Erres village in the north of the country.   “This landmark sentence sends a message that Guatemala might finally be moving closer to delivering justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of grave human rights violations during the civil war,” said...

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