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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 16. september 2010 / Timeline September 16, 2010
Version 3.515. September 2010, 17. September 2010
09/16/2010
National Security Archive Update, September 16, 2010
Former Guatemalan Soldier Convicted to Ten Years for Lying About
Role in Dos Erres Massacre
Washington, DC, September 16, 2010 - In a historic ruling, former
Guatemalan special forces soldier Gilberto Jordán, who
confessed to having participated in the 1982 massacre of hundreds
of men, women and children in Dos Erres, Guatemala, was sentenced
today by a judge in a south Florida courtroom to serve ten years in
federal prison for lying on his citizenship application about his
role in the crime. Calling the massacre, "reprehensible," U.S.
District Judge William Zloch handed down the maximum sentence
allowed for naturalization fraud, stating he wanted the ruling to
be a message to "those who commit egregious human rights violations
abroad" that they will not find "safe haven from prosecution" in
the United States.
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