Because of a massacre of villagers during the civil war in Guatemala, a Ex is a convicted soldier to more than 5000 years in prison. A court in Guatemala city, Guatemala, made Santos López on Wednesday for the death of 171 out of the total of 201 people killed responsible. The court imposed for every fatality, there are 30 years in prison and added an additional 30 years in prison for other crimes.

Purely calculated, thereby 5160 years in prison. The punishment is only symbolic, since prison is a upper limit of 50 years met in Guatemala.

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The carnage in the village of Dos Erres was one of the worst massacres during the decades-long civil Canl? Bahis war in Guatemala. Soldiers, fighters, in search of Guerrillas captured rifles, killed in December 1982, almost all the inhabitants of the village in the North of the country. The massacre was during the reign of military rulers Efraín Ríos Montt makes committed.

Because of the massacre in 2011 and 2012, five Ex-soldiers to prison sentences of more than 6000 years sentenced. The now convicted Santos López, a former member of the special unit Kaibil, was delivered in 2016 from the United States to Guatemala. In the civil war from 1960 to 1996 between the army and leftist guerrillas in the Central American country were killed, according to the report of a truth Commission, about 200,000 people, or disappeared.