Sunday, February 3, 2013

Where War Criminal Ex-Presidents Get Trials, Not Rich Retirement

Funny how it's all those Latin American hellholes we used to deride as banana republics who have figured out what we can't: that you can't move ahead until you solve what's behind you.

Firedoglake:

A Guatemalan judge has ruled that Ex-President, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, will be tried for genocide, specifically for killing 1,771 indigenous Mayans in 1982-83.  Read it and weep.

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