Three former paramilitaries were convicted in Guatemala for heavy crimes during the civil war

The Guatemala court imposed a 40 -year sentence on Friday in three years on three former paramilitary, who were found guilty of raping six women during the Civil War in the country in the 1980s. The case reflects how the army of Guatemis was used by the Guaboli army and the army of ” Indigenous people, in the endless years of the civil armed conflict (1960-1996), were also emphasized by various NGOs, also in the case, including Wola and Impancy Watch. The three former paramilitaries, too, are members of the so -called patrols of political self -defense, organizations created by the army to fight leftist rebels during the war, which left behind 200,000 dead and disappeared, according to the Committee. They were accused of crimes against humanity, rape women of the tribe of Atsi, who belongs to the Mayan ethnicity. Source of the French Agency at Impancy Watch (“Observatory for impunity”) clarified that the […]
Source: News Beast

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