21 Dec Guatemala will pay $3 million to massacre victims (Reuters)
Guatemala will pay $3 million to compensate victims of a civil war-era massacre in order to comply with an international court ruling, the nation’s human rights chief said on Monday. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights called for the payments after concluding that the Guatemalan government failed to fully investigate a three-day raid on the mountain hamlet of Dos Erres in 1982 where more than 200 villagers were killed by a special forces unit… go to article