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July 13, 2011

U.S. Deports Guatemalan Accused of Role in 1982 Massacre 
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The United States has deported a Guatemalan man believed to have been
involved in a 1982 massacre that killed 162 people. Pedro Pimentel Rios
is accused of murder and human rights abuses for his alleged
participation in the Las Dos Erres massacre. A former member of
Guatemala’s notorious U.S.-backed special forces, Pimentel Rios is
believed to have taken part in killing scores of Guatemalan villagers,
including women and children who were strangled, beaten with
sledgehammers and thrown down a well. Pimentel Rios is the fourth former
Guatemalan death squad member living in the United States to be linked
to the massacre and subsequently targeted for deportation.



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