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Ex-Guatemalan dictator guilty of genocide

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Frank BraunMay 11, 2013

A Guatemalan court has convicted ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and jailed him for 80 years. He was held responsible for the deaths of thousands of mostly Mayan people during the civil war in the 1980s.