Guatemalans Demand Ex President Evidence
Guatemala´s Association for Justice and Reconciliation made public a recourse presented to the Public Ministry to charge ex dictator Efrain Rios Montt for the crime of genocide.

AJR president Antonio Cava explained to Prensa Latina that the lawsuit is by communities of the so-called Ixil Triangle, Quiche Department, for 20 registered massacres between March 1982 and August 1983.

Rios Montt, as chief of Military Junta, Minister of Defense, President of the Republic and head of the General Staff of the Army, planned and ordered his subordinates to carry out of great number of massive human rights abuses against the Mayan people, pointed out AJR.

In discussing the suit, brought with CALDH legal consultancy (Center for Legal Action in Human Rights), CALDH advisor Miguel Angel Albizures said, “We are going to use every legal resource and that of the Constitution for the right to protest and demonstrate to bring Rios Montt to justice.”