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Activists Hail Landmark Ruling on Sexual Slavery in Guatemala’s Civil War
The case is one of the first anywhere in the world to focus on the use of sexual violence in war, and is centered on 15 indigenous women who were kept as sexual slaves by soldiers who had earlier disappeared their husbands and destroyed their community.
From Comic to President Under Pressure — Jimmy Morales Takes Office in Guatemala
Morales won a landslide victory in elections last October thanks to his image as an outsider, but now a major new judicial effort to prosecute war crimes from the 1980s has highlighted his links to former military officers accused of atrocities.
Guatemala Arrests 14 Retired Military Officers for Civil War Atrocities
Guatemala’s Attorney General Thelma Aldana said the arrests are related to massacres and forced disappearances in the 1980s during the height of the country's civil war that killed nearly 250,000 people.
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