A court in Guatemala has sentenced four soldiers to lengthy sentences for taking part in a 1982 massacre at an Indian village. More than 200 Indian men, women and children were killed in Dos Erres on December 6, 1982. The soldiers raped women and girls as part of the attack. The four soldiers were sentenced to 30 years for each of the 201 people who were killed, plus 30 years for human rights violations. That comes to over 6,000 years in prison for the men. A fifth soldier faces a trial after being deported from the U.S. Get the Story:
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