Massacre
Jun 4 2008, AP

A court has sentenced 22 soldiers and police to a combined 740 years in prison for the massacre of 69 people during a 2003 prison riot.The court says it will decide the 22 defendants’ individual sentences on July 17. The maximum prison sentence in...

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Villagers and relatives carry the coffins of people who were killed in a massacre by the Guatemalan Army in 1981 during a mass burial in the Cocop community in the village of Nebaj, Guatemala, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Anthropologists from the Forensic...