Guatemala: Ex-Dictator is Found Unfit

The Associated Press, New York Times

7 July 2015

Government-backed experts have said the former Guatemalan dictator José Efraín Rios Montt, 89, is mentally incompetent. A three-judge panel must now decide if a trial set for July 23 will proceed despite the opinion, issued last week by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences. Prosecutors say Mr. Rios Montt is responsible for the deaths of 1,771 Mayan Indians killed by the army between 1982 and 1983. He was convicted in 2013, but the constitutional court overturned his 80-year sentence and ordered a new trial.

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