Rights activist says 2 former Guatemalan soldiers arrested in 1982 civil war massacre

[Judi Lynn]

Rights activist says 2 former Guatemalan soldiers arrested in 1982 civil war massacre
JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Associated Press Writer
11:03 p.m. EST, February 12, 2010

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been arrested in the 1982 massacre of more than 200 villagers during the country's civil war, a human rights activist said Friday.

Aura Farfan of the Association of Missing Relatives of Guatemala said two former sergeants who belonged to a military squad specializing in counterinsurgency were arrested Tuesday.

She identified them as Manuel Pop Sun and Reyes Collin Gualip. They are the first to be arrested in the killings of more than 200 civilians, including dozens of children, in the village of Dos Erres in the country's northern Peten region.

Farfan's organization, which legally represents relatives of people who went missing during the conflict, said the former sergeants were among 17 soldiers in the army's elite Kaibil unit blamed for the bloodshed.

"They were killing machines, trained for killing," Farfan said.

National police spokesman Donald Gonzalez did not return call seeking comment.

Farfan said Pop Sun was arrested in Peten and Collin Gualip in a town near Guatemala City.

Warrants for their arrests were issued in 1999 but their lawyers had presented more than 40 legal filings to prevent their detention, Farfan said.

The military accused the villagers of being guerrilla sympathizers after they refused to join paramilitary groups to fight the rebels, according to a report by a U.N.-led truth commission established after the war.

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It's an old, OLD, overly familiar trick, isn't it: accusing people who don't agree with you of being active, violent enemies who must be killed. My God.

Don't they know people ALWAYS see through their twisted, dirty tricks, right to their sub-human, hate-filled deceitful hearts? Criminals of the lowest order. What the hell ARE they without their guns, or their keyboards?