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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Guatemala lawmakers approve resolution denying genocide during civil war

Guatemala lawmakers approve resolution denying genocide during civil war
[JURIST] The Congress of the Republic of Guatemala [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday approved a non-binding resolution denying any existence of genocide during the civil war lasting from 1960-1996. The resolution [AP report] calls for national reconciliation and states: "It is legally impossible ... that genocide could have occurred in our country's territory during the armed conflict." The Movement of victims of northern Quiche [backgrounder] allege that more than 250,000 people were killed during the civil war, predominately Guatemalan... [more].

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