Rape sentences in landmark Guatemala trial

[Judi Lynn]

1. They actually found high-ranking officials guilty. It couldn't have happened any earlier,

due to savage hatred of the original people, the Maya. This hatred is probably the backside of their denied sense of guilt for their elders' filthy mistreatment and criminal acts against the forefathers of the modern Maya.

More from the BBC article posted above:

The retired officer, Francisco Reyes Giron, was found guilty of holding 15 women in sexual and domestic slavery and for killing one woman and her two daughters.

Heriberto Valdez Asij, a civilian who carried out military commissions, was convicted for the same enslavement, as well as the forced disappearance of seven men.

The court had heard harrowing details about what went on at the former Sepur Zarco military base in the eastern highlands during the 1980s.

According to the prosecution, in 1982 armed forces repeatedly attacked the village of Sepur Zarco and killed or took away Mayan Quiche leaders who had been applying for land titles and had angered local landowners.

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Francisco Reyes Giron



Heriberto Valdez Asij

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