25/08/2023 02:33 (UTC)

One soldier jailed, eight others acquitted in 1982 massacre case

Guatemala City, Aug 24 (EFE).- A Guatemalan court sentenced a retired military commander to 20 years in prison Thursday and acquitted eight other members of the Army, accused of massacring 25 people from an indigenous community in the north during the government of the coup dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.

"They only sentenced one, and the other eight came out laughing," Pedrina Alvarado, a relative of eight of the victims of the massacre in the Rancho Bejuco hamlet told EFE. (Camera: DAVID TORO).

SHOT LIST: MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND ACTIVISTS GATHER TO PAY TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS OF THE RANCHO BEJUCO MASSACRE, IN GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA.

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Date: 25/08/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Unrest and conflicts » Massacre
Crime, law and justice
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 85 seconds
Reference: 7001291642
Relevance: Normal