A previous general blamed for requesting the homicide of more than 1,200 native Ixil Maya individuals during Guatemala's thoughtful conflict has gone being investigated. Benedicto Lucas Garcia, 91, has been arraigned for decimation, violations against mankind - including far and wide assault - and constrained vanishings. Survivors from one town say Garcia's soldiers killed youngsters, infants and the old.
He denies the charges. The supposed violations happened somewhere in the range of 1978 and 1982, when Garcia's sibling Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia was leader of Guatemala. Benedicto Lucas Garcia is blamed for arranging and executing more than 30 slaughters in the western area of Quiche. Legal advisor Nery Rodenas, overseer of the Basic liberties Office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala, told the AFP news organization that survivors had paused "over 40 years" for equity.
Ex-general Garcia followed procedures by video connect from a tactical clinic, where he is as of now carrying out an earlier punishment for constrained vanishing, assault and torment. One co-respondent passed on in 2020, while one more was viewed as unsuitable to stand preliminary and will confront separate procedures. Numerous Ixil Maya individuals were designated by the military, blamed for offering help to communist revolutionaries.
Around 200,000 individuals passed on in the contention, which endured very nearly 40 years. Most were ethnic Maya. Guatemala's High Courtroom decided in 2018 that demonstrations of annihilation had been committed against the Ixil public. In any case, just few low-positioning fighters have been sentenced for atrocities.