A Guatemalan ex-governor, implicated of killing more than 1200 native Ixil Maya individuals throughout the nation’s 1960-1996 civil war has actually gone on trial, AFP reported.
Benedicto Lucas Garcia, who worked as militaries chief throughout the 1978-1982 presidency of his sibling Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, is charged with the preparation and execution of lots of massacre in the western area of Quiche.
His charges consist of genocide, criminal offenses versus humankind and required disappearance.
Presently Garcia, 91, is serving a 58-year jail sentence for kidnapping, rape, and abuse.
He attended his trial which started on Friday through a video link from a military medical facility.
In a useless plea, he stated: “I’m currently desperate.”
In the trial, more than 80 skilled reports consisting of reports of the exhumations of lots of bodies with bullet holes and burns from mass tombs will exist and about 30 survivors will affirm versus him.
legal representative Nery Rodenas, from the Human Rights Office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala stated: “We hope that the court thinks about that this suffices proof to provide a conviction.”
The Ixil Maya population was implicated by the armed force of functioning as an assistance base for leftist guerrillas, throughout the civil war.
According to the non-governmental organisation Association for Justice and Reconciliation, around 1,300 native individuals passed away in the massacres, consisting of kids and the senior.