Sentenced to more than 6000 years is accused of committing a massacre in Guatemala

 

Court in Guatemala at a soldier accused of committing a massacre of involvement "Iris dos" and killing two hundred people in prison for 6060 years.The U.S. authorities have deported the accused Pedro Pimentel Rios last year at the request of Guatemala.Rios and the soldier is the fifth accused of involvement in the massacre that took place in 1982, is subject to the trial.And the term of imprisonment is primarily symbolic, where the real power is 50 years old.The massacre, "Dos Aires," the most violent in the history of the civil war in Guatemala, which lasted 36 years.The special battalion of the army had raided the village suspected of harboring and assisting left-wing revolutionaries and soldiers killed hundreds of residents of the village for three days and then throwing their bodies into a well.The families of the victims have fought legal battles for a long time to be able to bring the guilty to justice.Rios and lived in California for many years prior to his arrest in 2010 and handed over to the authorities in Guatemala.He denied any connection ex-soldier massacre, was sentenced to 30 years for each person killed in addition to 30 years for crimes against humanity.Four other soldiers involved in the massacre had been tried before.In January a court to provide the former commander of the army, Efraín Ríos Montt, on trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.Monte was the leader of the Army between 1982 and 1983 who have witnessed the most heinous violations, where the population wiped out entire villages of Mayan tribes, and an estimated number of people killed in the civil war which ended in 1996 with 200 thousand people.

Source: BBC Arabic