The Highest Danger Courtroom “A” of the Judicial Department made the choice to cancel this Monday’s listening to and proceed tomorrow within the face of technical issues registered in the reference to the hospital the place Lucas García, 91, is being handledattributable to well being issues.
The retired basic is accused by the Prosecutor’s Workplace of being liable for the demise of 844 indigenous individualswhen He was the Chief of the Normal Workers of the Guatemalan Military throughout the federal government of his brother, Romeo Lucas García (1978-1982), as defined by the Public Ministry within the oral and public debate.
Till now Greater than a dozen witnesses have taken the standwho recounted the massacres dedicated by the Guatemalan Military towards indigenous populations.
Based on the Prosecutor’s Workplace, within the judicial course of testimony is lackingWithin the subsequent weeks, of greater than 60 individuals.
Since 2018, Lucas García has been serving a 58-year jail sentence for the compelled disappearance of the kid Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, occurred in October 1981.
The interior armed battle in Guatemala, which lasted 36 years between 1960 and 1996, left greater than 250 thousand victims, together with lifeless and lacking, greater than 90 p.c by the hands of the State, based on analysis by worldwide organizations.
The judicial course of towards the retired navy man It has been carried out since this month as a result of massacres perpetrated by the Military within the division of Quiché, in northern Guatemala, 42 years in the past.
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