Court finds ex-Guatemala dictator guilty of genocide during his violent reign and vast repression

Ex-Guatemalan ruler found guilty of genocide

AFP

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and war crimes Friday in a landmark ruling stemming from massacres of indigenous people in his country’s long civil war. Rios Montt thus became the first Latin American convicted of trying to exterminate an entire group of people. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles