A Guatemalan court sentenced four former military officers to 12,060 years in prison each for the slaughter of more than 200 civilians in 1982 during the country’s civil war. “This court unanimously declared the accused as perpetrators of murder. For this crime, a sentence of 30 years in prison for…
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