US deports man to Guatemala decades after massacre that left over 150 people dead

[Judi Lynn]

US deports man to Guatemala decades after massacre that left over 150 people dead
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 4:47 PM

LOS ANGELES — U.S. authorities on Tuesday deported a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force suspected of helping carry out a massacre in 1982 that left more than 150 people dead in the Central American nation.

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The former instructor at the Guatemalan training school for a force known as the “kaibiles” was ordered deported from the United States in May when an immigration judge rejected his bid for asylum.

Pimentel is wanted in Guatemala in connection with the massacre at the village of Dos Erres. He is one of more than a dozen former kaibiles sought by Guatemalan authorities for the killings.

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“Our government basically supported all these goings on and now, you know, 20 years later, our government is trying to say, gee, no, we would have never done that, and all these people are terrible,” Selph said.

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