A judge in Guatemala has determined that there is sufficient evidence to send former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to trial for the case of the Las Dos Erres massacre. This is the second trial Ríos Montt will face in… Read More ›
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Appeals Court Upholds Suspension of Ríos Montt Genocide Trial
“The retrial trial against former head of state General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his former chief of intelligence (“G2”) General Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya Ixil population has been definitively… Read More ›
Genocide trial due to resume next month
The latest news regarding the genocide retrial is that it is due to begin on the 5th January 2015. It is now almost 19 months since the initial conviction and subsequent annulment of the trial proceedings that had resulted in… Read More ›
Rights Groups urge completion of genocide trial
On Friday, April 19, the genocide trial of Rios Montt former dictator and Mauricio Rodgriquez Sanchez former head of military intelligence was suspended following the unexpected ruling of Judge Carol Patricia Flores on Thursday, annulling the proceedings. Judge Flores, who… Read More ›
Guatemala judge suspends Rios Montt genocide trial
Judge Carol Flores sparks row after voiding all actions taken in former dictator’s war crimes case since November 2011 Associated Press in Guatemala City guardian.co.uk, Friday 19 April 2013 09.24 BST A judge in Guatemala has ordered the suspension of… Read More ›
Guatemalan Genocide Trial
“Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez ended a four-hour hearing today in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt by accepting all of the witnesses, experts and documents submitted as evidence by the prosecution. The defense, by contrast, failed… Read More ›
Retrial of Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity
The retrial of Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity is due to start on the 5th January, tomorrow, in Guatemala. While the defense lawyers are doing what they can to delay or postpone the trial, or even… Read More ›
Genocide on Trial, Day 20: AJR Survivors Respond to Dramatic Events
The Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) represents the witnesses and survivors of Guatemala’s genocide and are co-plaintiffs in the case against Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez. For more than a decade the survivors have struggled for… Read More ›
Guatemala Sends Former Dictator to Trial for Genocide
Paul N. Avakian writes in the Foreign Policy Journal, “against a long history of impunity, a Guatemalan high judge last month sent to trial a lingering genocide case against a popular former dictator who presided over the most brutal phase… Read More ›
Ríos Montt, Guatemala’s ex-dictator, to stand trial on genocide
Great news in from Guatemala today – this from Associated Press. “A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of… Read More ›
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