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June 20, 2011

Former Guatemala Military Official Arrested For Involvement in Hundreds of Mass Killings 
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A former Guatemalan military official has been arrested for his alleged
involvement in hundreds of massacres during the early 1980s. Eighty-one
year-old Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes is the highest ranking Guatemalan
official to be detained for the mass killings. The charges against him
include genocide and forced disappearance. From 1960 to 1996, an
estimated 200,000 people were killed and tens of thousands were
disappeared by the U.S.-backed government of Guatemala.



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