Morning Star.png Eight Guatemala Generals Face Trial over Mass Grave at Military Base The Morning Star, London, 9 June 2016 Eight former senior military officers will face trial for crimes against humanity in Guatemala's 36-year dirty war, a judge has ruled. Claudet Dominguez ordered on Tuesday that the eight be tried over the discovery of the mass grave of 565 indigenous Mayan people in January. The gruesome find was made at what is now the headquarters of the Peacekeeping Operations Training Regional Command in Coban, the capital of the Alta Verapaz department. Among the eight are ex-army chief of staff Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia, who is the brother of a former president, former interior minister Byron Barrientos Diaz and former intelligence agent Cesar Augusto Cabrera Mejia. If convicted, they face up to 50 years in jail. At least 245,000 people were killed or disappeared in the 1960-96 civil war that followed the 1954 US-run invasion and coup against president Jacobo Arbenz. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c28b-Guatemala-Eight-generals-face-tri al-over-mass-grave-at-military-base#.V1jsbPl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c28b-Guatemala-Eight-generals-face-tria l-over-mass-grave-at-military-base#.V1jsbPl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/004201d1c21c%246a909c70%243fb1d550%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
