Former President on War Crimes charges.

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Grahame Russel is a Canadian lawyer who works with Rights
Action (http://rightsaction.org). He was in Guatemala as an
observer for the trial of Rios Efrain Montt who is accused of
being responsible for the genocide of over 100 thousand Mayan
indigenous people during his term as President in the early
1980s. Grahame makes the point that this is a ground breaking
trial as it implicates the current President of Guatemala who was
a major in the Guatemalan Armed Forces at the time the human
rights abuses and the genocide was peaking. Alan Nairn, a
journalist who filmed current President Otto Perez Molina
gloating over the bodies of villagers suspected of being
supporters of the guerilla forces was blocked from presenting
evidence at the trial.
(http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/19/exclusive_allan_nairn_exposes_role_of)