Former Guatemalan leader at 'genocide' hearing
Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s.
Rios Montt has been accused of being responsible for some of the worse massacres during the Central American country’s 36 years of civil war.
The 85-year-old former general says he was dealing with a war.
Thousands of people demanding justice surrounded a court building in Guatemala City when Rios Montt appeared at a hearing before a judge who will decide whether the ex-dictator can be tried on genocide charges.
Prosecutors said Guatemala’s military is implicated in at least 100 incidents involving at least 1,771 deaths.
