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Ríos Montt placed under house arrest
Louisa Reynolds

Former dictator faces charges of genocide committed against the Mayan Ixil ethnic group between 1982 and 1983.

On June 2, 1982, when American journalist Pamela Yates asked Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt whether the Army was committing human rights violations against indigenous communities, he emphatically denied the allegations.see more

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