Amy Goodman
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Guatemalan Soldiers Sentenced to 6,060 Years in Prison for Role in 1982 Massacre. 1 of 2
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13:24Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - On Tuesday, a national court in Guatemala handed down the first convictions for a notorious massacre. It was 1982 when Guatemalan soldiers attacked the village of Las Dos Erres and killed more than 200 people — many of them women, children and the elderly — who were assaulted and beaten before they were shot or bludgeoned to death and then thrown down a well. Now a Guatemalan judge has sentenced four of the soldiers who carried out the Dos Erres attack to 6,060 years of prison each, 30 years per person they killed. Democracy Now! speaks with Annie Bird, co-director of Rights Action, and with Ramón Cadena, the ad hoc judge who heard the Dos Erres massacre case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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The court also found the soldiers guilty of crimes against human rights, adding another 30 years to their sentences. It is the latest step in a process to end impunity for those involved in the deaths or disappearances of more than 200,000 people in the 1980s and 90s. However, human rights groups allege that the leading presidential candidate, General Otto Perez Molina, was directly involved in the systematic use of torture and acts of genocide during these years.
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