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06 May 2013
GUATEMALA : Background Details In Rios Montt Indigena Genocide Trial.
A brief but detail-rich backgrounder and analysis by Peter Canby of the alleged murders and abuses against thousands of indigena Maya by former dictator Gen Rios Montt in 1982.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/the-maya-genocide-trial.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true