Guatemala seeks genocide trial for former general

[Judi Lynn]

September 20, 2011 2:08 AM
Guatemala seeks genocide trial for former general

(AP) NEBAJ, Guatemala — Juana Matom was just 8 or 9 when soldiers marched into her remote village in the highlands of Guatemala. Horrified, she watched them take her older brother and beat him bloody.

When the soldiers turned to her, Matom fled barefoot into the dense jungle near her village in Nejab, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Guatemala City.

"They told us we had to go with them," said Matom, an indigenous Ixil who is now about 38. "I thought that if I stayed, they would kill me."

The next day, villagers found the body of her brother and 12 others.

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