His stories, lawsuits and actions have been getting more outrageous by the day, as have his threats.
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Unfortunately, in seeking to prosecute the material and intellectual authors of these crimes, the Attorney General has awoken the ire of pro-military structures and organizations. Since the victory of Pérez Molina's Patriot Party those who oppose her work have become increasingly vocal and confrontational.
Ricardo Méndez Ruiz Valdés is one of those opponents. He was kidnapped by guerilla forces in 1982 while his father served as Interior Minister for the Ríos Montt regime. He recently presented a baseless lawsuit against 32 supposed members of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), including Dr. Paz y Paz ́s recently deceased father. An emboldened Mendez Ruiz confirmed that the lawsuit was meant to harass and intimidate the attorney general. "Yes, this is political," exclaimed Méndez Ruiz. "It is against the Attorney General, for the love of god, I'm taking aim at her."
Since then, two more criminal complaints have been brought against large groups of supposed members of the guerrilla movement for acts committed during the internal armed conflict. Both complaints read as a who’s-who of the human rights community and the left including journalists, authors, attorneys and the former first lady Sandra Torres; the cases included the Attorney General’s father and a total of 12 other family members.
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Judge Carol Patricia Flores didn’t buy the argument. Judge Flores has been charged with presiding over some of the most groundbreaking human rights cases in Guatemala's history. In her ruling, she referred repeatedly to the ―despicable acts which occurred during the time of Ríos Montt’s dictatorship. She cited one case in particular, that of a young indigenous girl who was bound by soldiers from head to toe in such a brutal way that... Judge Flores paused for a moment raising her hand to her mouth as if choking on the words that she was about to say.... the girl’s eyes fell from their sockets. The girl died shortly thereafter.
http://www.ghrc-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Issue-11_final.pdf
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