Efraín Ríos Montt: Guatemala human rights groups welcome genocide trial

[L. Coyote]

Are the Bushes worried when things like this transpire after lo so many years. For some crimes, death is the only certain escape from fear of prosecution.
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Efraín Ríos Montt: Guatemala human rights groups welcome genocide trial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/27/efrain-rios-montt-genocide-trial
Judge rules that Guatemala's former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt must face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 January 2012


Human rights groups celebrated on Friday after a court in Guatemala ruled that the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, who presided over one of Latin America's bloodiest civil wars, will face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Members of the Ixil tribe, which suffered horrific atrocities at the hands of the army, said they had waited decades for this moment but expressed disappointment that the retired general was placed under house arrest rather than jailed.

After a day-long hearing, Judge Carol Patricia Flores Blanco ruled on Thursday that there was sufficient evidence linking Ríos Montt to the massacre of 1,700 indigenous people ........

[Louisiana1976]

1. It's about time justice was done. K&R!

[L. Coyote]

2. It seems that these old dictators get charged just before dying. That timetable needs to move up!

Albeit, Old Bush could use a few indictments any day before he dies, just to send a message to future US leaders about killing progressives in other countries.