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08/04/2011
Four Kaibiles Sentenced to 6,060 Years Each for Dos Erres Massacre
By Emily Willard and Laura Perkins
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This past Tuesday marked a landmark event for human rights in Guatemala with the sentencing of Daniel Martínez Hernández, Manuel Pop Sun, Reyes Collin Gualip, and Carlos Antonio Carías to a total of 24,246 years in prison, for their roles in the 1982 massacre in Dos Erres, El Petén, Guatemala. Each defendant faces 30 years in prison for the murder of each of the 201 victims identified in the trial, with an additional 30 year sentence for crimes against humanity, bringing the total to 6,060 years each. Carlos Antonio Carías faces an additional six years for committing grand theft.
The massacre, which occurred in December 1982, was perpetrated by a company of 40 Kaibiles, Guatemala’s elite Special Forces unit. The group, including the four defendants, entered the village in search of 21 rifles lost in a previous ambush by guerrillas, and proceeded to methodically kill more than 250 men, women, and children. The villagers were beaten, raped, and thrown into the community’s well.
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