Guatemala: Amnesty Denied for Dictator Rios Montt
- 9 years ago
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt is facing a second trial on charges of genocide and has been denied amnesty by an appeals court. He had sought to avoid a second trial for his part in the massacre of over 1700 Mayans in the north of the country between 1982 and 1983. Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide in 2013 and sentenced to 80 years in jail, but the ruling was revoked by the Constitutional Court for alleged procedural errors and must be repeated. The dictator will be tried en absentia as of January of 2016, but will not be jailed. teleSUR