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January 6, 2015

Guatemala: Genocide Retrial of Former Dictator Ríos Montt Delayed 
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In Guatemala, the trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on
genocide charges has been delayed shortly after it resumed following a
two-year pause. In 2013, the former U.S.-backed military dictator was
sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity
for the mass killing of Ixil Mayans in the 1980s. But a court annulled
the verdict less than two weeks later. Ríos Montt, who is 88, appeared
in court Monday on a stretcher covered with a blanket after he lost a
bid to be excused on medical grounds. The retrial was postponed after
his attorneys accused one of the judges of bias. (Click here to watch
Democracy Now! coverage of the trial.)

 

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