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In reply to the discussion: Rios Montt Verdict Day. Sanchez statements. Verdict at 4PM Central today [View all]
Catherina
(35,568 posts)77. NYT: " As the general tried to walk out a side door..."
As the general tried to walk out a side door, Judge Barrios shouted at him to stay where he was and called for security forces. An hour after the verdict and sentence were read, General Ríos Montt was escorted from the courtroom by a dozen police officers. He said he was ready to go to prison.
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Wiping tears from his eyes, Antonio Caba, 41, an Ixil leader of the Mayan survivors’ group that first brought the case more than a decade ago, said the sentence had “broken impunity and achieved justice.”
“We showed them that we’re not communists,” said Mr. Caba, who was 11 when soldiers stormed his village and killed 95 men. “We are simply villagers.”
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Adama Dieng, the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide, said last month that the case was the first in which a former head of state had been indicted by a national tribunal on charges of genocide.
The “historical precedent,”and especially a guilty verdict, he said, could serve as an example to other countries “that have failed to hold accountable those individuals responsible for serious and massive human rights violations.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/americas/gen-efrain-rios-montt-of-guatemala-guilty-of-genocide.html?_r=1&
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Wiping tears from his eyes, Antonio Caba, 41, an Ixil leader of the Mayan survivors’ group that first brought the case more than a decade ago, said the sentence had “broken impunity and achieved justice.”
“We showed them that we’re not communists,” said Mr. Caba, who was 11 when soldiers stormed his village and killed 95 men. “We are simply villagers.”
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Adama Dieng, the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide, said last month that the case was the first in which a former head of state had been indicted by a national tribunal on charges of genocide.
The “historical precedent,”and especially a guilty verdict, he said, could serve as an example to other countries “that have failed to hold accountable those individuals responsible for serious and massive human rights violations.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/americas/gen-efrain-rios-montt-of-guatemala-guilty-of-genocide.html?_r=1&
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Rios Montt Verdict Day. Sanchez statements. Verdict at 4PM Central today [View all]
Catherina
May 2013
OP
Now inside court of judge Flores who previously supported demand to shut down the trial
Catherina
May 2013
#1
No way! Chaos. With the verdict a few hours away, this judge rules for Rios Montt. Rolls back trial
Catherina
May 2013
#4
Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz stated that the Flores 4/18 judgment was illegal
Catherina
May 2013
#7
"We don't tolerate corruption, impunity, influence peddling" That IS a hot one! n/t
Judi Lynn
May 2013
#56
Judgment in Genocide Trial Expected Today at 4 pm Despite Pre-trial Judge’s Call for Annulment
Catherina
May 2013
#8
Guardian: Guatemala genocide trial: witnesses of atrocities tell their stories
Catherina
May 2013
#9
3:45PM Rios Montt enters the courtroom, sparse applause and shouts of 'asesino'
Catherina
May 2013
#10
....."I am innocent," Ríos Montt tells court in genocide trial, breaking silence
Judi Lynn
May 2013
#86
"We're going to give a sentence based on the consciousness of the Guatemalan republic"
Catherina
May 2013
#15
Barrios refers to Plan Victoria 82: The objective was to annul the civil population,
Catherina
May 2013
#17
Judge Barrios: Hunger, rape were strategies of control... We could see the pain of the victims
Catherina
May 2013
#18
use of sexual violence was a deliberate tactic with which to tear apart the social fabric.
Catherina
May 2013
#19
Me too. HUGE. "Trial has marked a turning point 4 rape survivors, breaking taboo of sexual violence"
Catherina
May 2013
#78
All of them. You know what really kills me? "soldiers jailed 4 more than 6,000 years over massacre"
Catherina
May 2013
#88
You don't want to believe it, but it's true. Just like the U.S. South has been.
Judi Lynn
May 2013
#62
Information about this one and Plan Victoria Campaign 82 has been inaccessable
Judi Lynn
May 2013
#63
"clandestine cemeteries, mental harm, transfer of children from one group to another"
Catherina
May 2013
#25
Judge: Rios Montt was aware of everything. He had the utmost authority to stop massacres
Catherina
May 2013
#26
Thank god. Guatemala owes thanks, respect to the prosecutor, the clean judges.
Judi Lynn
May 2013
#64
loud boom near defense table. Rios Montt trying to leave the courtroom as if not guilty
Catherina
May 2013
#34
The courtroom is totally out of control. There are a lot of people and guns in here
Catherina
May 2013
#35
People telling at Press who seem to be shielding Rios Montt. Judge calls 4 security
Catherina
May 2013
#36
Judge Barrios: We are staying here until the police come. Press, please maintain order.
Catherina
May 2013
#37
Press has reformed a tight circle around Montt. authorities have arrived to remove him
Catherina
May 2013
#40
You're welcome with hugs. About Otto Rene Castillo, Guatemalan communist poet and revolutionary
Catherina
May 2013
#74
At least a dozen national police enter... Gallery still singing 'aquí solo queremos ser humanos'
Catherina
May 2013
#43
Public is now singing "Solo pido a díos"... while waiting for Montt to be handed to police
Catherina
May 2013
#44
“All the people here applauding, tomorrow you... bow your heads, your tails between your legs."
Catherina
May 2013
#49
Nobel Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu. Weeping with joy at verdict "For years they said I was lying."
Catherina
May 2013
#51
Fundacion Contra Terrorismo was filming Ixiles as they left court: threat/intimidation.
Catherina
May 2013
#53
I frankly fear for the judge, the plaintiff, and the witnesses now. and Allan Nairn...
Catherina
May 2013
#90