Suspension of El Juicio Contra Ocho Militares Por Desapariciones during La Guerra Civil in Guatemala

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A suspension of weapons in Guatemala marks the beginning of the trial of the withdrawn soldiers during the civil war (1960-1996), a case related to the occupation of more than 500 people at an Antigua military base.

If we grant a favor to one of the implied cases, the decision “sin of legal validity” is the decision of a jurisdiction over the legal case – and a fact that has not been finally established and goes back to the stage of the trial investigation, after the solution of this market has been achieved.

When the prison of the military acusados ​​​​was abolished, the General General Benedicto Lucas, the 92-year-old exjefe of the Estado mayor of the country, was murdered and became a juzgado in April, and other causes, by the genocide of the indigenous population during the war.

The process has begun since early 2016 with the detention of military vinculados and desapariciones forzadas and other American cometidos in Cobán (north) and indigenous peoples’ communities, between 1978 and 1990.

The rest of the more than 500 people exhumed between 2012 and 2015 were completed in the Regional Center for Operations of Operations in Paz for misiones of the ONU of Ejército (Creompaz), in Cobán, considered one of the things that cementerio clandestine more grande de Latinoamérica”.

“Lamentamos que (la sala) has benefited from this fight against military crimes,” said the president of the querellante Asociación Familiares de Detenidos de Guatemala (FAMDEGUA), Paulo Estrada, who announced the fall.

The Amparo benefited from the forwarder and the retired Edgar Ovalle, proffugo since 2017.

“The problem has not been solved (…) that the process must be reconsidered,” Moisés Galindo, defender of the armed forces, said that all other aspects of the fight “have no competence” to conoculate the process.

Lucas was hospitalized in 2017 and convicted for the disappearance of a young man, violence and torture of his herman in his family era of the “subversiva”, in 1981, 50 years ago.

The other juicio that is in the final phase is through his paper on the matanzas of more than 1,200 indigenous Mayans between 1978 and 1982, while in Guatemala Gobernaba was his hermano, the president of Romeo Lucas García.

The Guatemalan guerrilla killed 200,000 people and people, when a promising order was given by the ONU, the mayor of the army, who attacked the indigenous population of the guerrillas.