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 ›
Rios Montt
“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 ›
In court news…
The defence lawyers of Rios Montt showed that they are well practised in the Guatemalan art of the dilatory amparo, or injunction. Earlier this year they filed an injunction against an order that insisted that military plans be provided to… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 