[news] Guatemalan Genocide Survivors Clamor for RíosMontt´s Capture

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OVER a thousand survivors of state-led genocide flooded the streets of Guatemala City Friday, converging on the Supreme Court building and covering it with graffiti and banners, to demand the capture of ex-dictator and current political heavyweight Efraín Rios Montt upon receipt of a forthcoming arrest warrant. According to the warrant, which is expected to soon be transmitted from Spanish courts to Guatemala, Ríos Montts reign (1982-1983) constituted “69% of all executions, 41% of rapes and sexual assaults and 45% of all reported tortures” committed during the military´s so-called counterinsurgency campaign which officially concluded in 1996. 

  


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