Rios Montt Verdict Day. Sanchez statements. Verdict at 4PM Central today

[Catherina]

88. All of them. You know what really kills me? "soldiers jailed 4 more than 6,000 years over massacre"

How come soldiers are getting 600 years for a few people, Rios Montt is sentenced to 80 years for a 'few' more, and all the others, within and without Guatemala, are untouched?

Guatemalan soldiers jailed for more than 6,000 years over massacre
Wednesday 3 August 2011

Four ex-members of special forces unit sentenced for their part in slaughter of 201 civilians in 1982 during country's civil war


Former soldier Reyes Collin Gualip leaves court after he and three other men were sentenced over the massacre of 201 people in 1982 during the Guatemalan civil war. Photograph: Saul Martinez/EPA

Three Guatemalan former special forces soldiers have been sentenced to 6,060 years in prison each for the 1982 massacre of 201 men, women and children during the Central American country's civil war.

A former army second lieutenant was also sentenced to 6,066 years in prison for the same massacre in the village of Dos Erres in Guatemala's northern Peten region.

The length of the sentences is largely symbolic since under Guatemalan law the maximum time a convict can serve is 50 years.

The sentences for Manuel Pop Sun, Reyes Collin Gualip and Daniel Martinez include 30 years for each death, plus 30 years for crimes against humanity. The three men are former members the Guatemalan military's elite Kaibil unit.

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While more than 40 soldiers guarded the perimeter of the community, the men raped and killed women and girls, and banished hundreds of people from the community, according to the filings.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/03/guatemala-soldiers-jailed-massacre