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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 07:17 PM Apr 2013

Judge suspends genocide trial of Guatemala's Rios Montt

Source: Reuters

Judge suspends genocide trial of Guatemala's Rios Montt

GUATEMALA CITY | Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:53pm EDT

(Reuters) - A judge on Thursday suspended the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, ordering the legal process to be set back to November 2011, before the retired general was charged with war crimes.

Judge Patricia Flores told the court where the 86-year-old has been on trial since March that she was following a directive from the nation's top justices.

Rios Montt, who ruled between 1982-83, was ordered to trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in January to answer for a counterinsurgency plan that killed more than 1,700 members of the Ixil indigenous group during Guatemala's long civil war.

(Reporting by Mike McDonald; editing by Xavier Briand)


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/18/us-guatemala-riosmontt-judge-idUSBRE93H1DB20130418
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Judge suspends genocide trial of Guatemala's Rios Montt (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2013 OP
Can you give me some reason for what happened? BlueToTheBone Apr 2013 #1
Unbelievable, simply unbelievable. This is crazy, how can she face herself? Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #2

Judi Lynn

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2. Unbelievable, simply unbelievable. This is crazy, how can she face herself?
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 01:29 AM
Apr 2013

Eugene, if you're still up and logged in, please cross-post this in LBN. I'm certain there are people there who don't take the time to check the Latin America forum who are interested in this trial.

U.S.America is most clearly involved in his trial, since Ronald Reagan sponsored so much of his genocide, and did P.R. work for him world-wide.

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