A choose in Guatemala has issued arrest warrants for ten individuals accused of abductions, torture, rape and killings in 1984
GUATEMALA CITY — A choose in Guatemala issued arrest warrants Thursday for 10 individuals accused of abductions, torture, rape and killings in 1984.
The crimes got here to mild due to a police doc masking that yr dubbed the “Army Diary.”
Choose Miguel Ángel Gálvez confirmed the warrants, however didn’t establish who the suspects had been. Prosecutors confirmed that every one 10 had been arrested.
A supply near case who couldn’t communicate on the report mentioned that at the very least one military normal and two civilians had been amongst these arrested.
The doc that surfaced in 1999 describes the disappearances, abuse and deaths of greater than 190 individuals throughout Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil warfare.
The typewritten, 74-page doc contains annotations in codes like “300,” which consultants later found meant “killed.” There are 99 names within the doc with that code.
One sufferer was described as a suspected leftist guerrilla, Prudencio de Jesús Carrera Camey. He was held for 2 weeks and killed. He was 15 years previous.
One other entry recorded the detention of college professor Rudy Gustavo Figueroa Muñoz. Kidnapped on Oct. 12, 1984, he was held for 52 days; his household did not know the place he was till his physique turned up in December. The “300” annotation appeared subsequent to his title.
His son Rudy Figueroa was 11 when his father disappeared: “My youthful brother was born whereas he was detained. He by no means met him.”
Some detainees included within the report survived, however others had been by no means heard from once more.
Greater than 200,000 individuals died within the civil warfare, which ended with peace accords in 1996. However greater than 45,000 individuals stay lacking.