Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, made the following remarks today (March 19th 2013) as the trial of former generals Efrain Rios Montt and Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez began in Guatemala City: The judges,… Read More ›
Rios Montt
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 ›
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 ›
A chance at justice in Guatemala
The news that Efraín Ríos Montt was to stand trial on charges of genocide was widely greeted. Kirsten Weld, in the New York Times, in recognising the bravery of the Guatemalan judge stated, “In greenlighting a public trial for the… 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 ›
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
“In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court recently charged former dictator Efraín Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war against the country’s Mayan people in the 1980s — and Pamela Yates’ 1983 documentary, When… Read More ›
Q&A: ‘We Are on the Road to Overcoming Impunity’ in Guatemala
Danilo Valladares interviews Rosalina Tuyuc, winner of the Niwano Peace Prize. This was on the Global Issues website and is from Inter Press Service. ‘To achieve peace, it is necessary for the truth to come out, and for the victims… Read More ›
Preliminary Hearing in Case against José Efraín Ríos Montt
We are again grateful to NISGUA for the following piece. On Thursday, January 26, 2012, in a preliminary hearing, General José Efraín Ríos Montt was linked to the ongoing legal process for genocide and crimes against humanity by the first… Read More ›
“Eternal life to our loved ones” – Interviews with AJR after Ríos Montt hearing
We are grateful to NISGUA for the following piece. An initial court hearing for former General Efraín Ríos Montt, accused of genocide, took place after ten years of work by the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR). The day after… Read More ›
Documents prove that Ríos Montt ordered the indigenous genocide in Guatemala
Documentation that the Guatemalan army, under the Efraín Ríos Montt, carried out a campaign in the summer of 1982 deliberately aimed at massacring thousands of indigenous peasants, has just been presented as evidence to the Spanish National Court. Kate Doyle,… Read More ›
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