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September 2, 2009

Ex-Guatemalan Military Official Convicted for Junta-Era Disappearances
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Meanwhile, in Guatemala a former top military official has become the
first person to be convicted of committing disappearances under the
Guatemalan junta. Former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero was found
guilty of the forced disappearances of six peasant farmers in the early
1980s. Cusanero was convicted before a packed courtroom filled with
Mayan villagers and relatives of the disappeared. Hundreds of thousands
of people died under the junta, with most of the killings committed by
the Guatemalan army.



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