Court Sentences Soldiers in 1995 Massacre
A court has handed 14 soldiers sentences of 40 years in prison for massacring Maya Indians in 1995, officials said. The sentences are among the longest given Guatemalan troops for crimes against human rights.
The court ruled that the former soldiers were guilty of extrajudicial killings, court secretary Leonardo Pop said. The men, all members of an army patrol, killed 11 people and injured 30 in an attack on Xaman, a Maya community in northern Guatemala.
The victims had recently returned from Mexico after fleeing repression during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war.
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