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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Justice, Administration of Languages : en Pages : 25
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Within ten days, Guatemalan courts made and unmade legal history. The trial and conviction of former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt on 10 May 2013 for genocide and other human rights violations was an extraordinary achievement for a justice system that must grapple simultaneously with the legacy of a vicious internal conflict and the contemporary scourges of gang violence, corruption and illegal drug trafficking. Victims had barely finished celebrating, however, when the Constitutional Court annulled the verdict in a confusing decision that raised questions of outside interference. Widespread impunity for past and present violence continues to have a corrosive effect on the country's democracy. Failure to renew the trial for mass atrocities against Ríos Montt and pursue justice for the victims of violent crime would undermine its halting progress toward rule of law, including a strong independent judiciary.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Justice, Administration of Languages : en Pages : 25
Book Description
Within ten days, Guatemalan courts made and unmade legal history. The trial and conviction of former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt on 10 May 2013 for genocide and other human rights violations was an extraordinary achievement for a justice system that must grapple simultaneously with the legacy of a vicious internal conflict and the contemporary scourges of gang violence, corruption and illegal drug trafficking. Victims had barely finished celebrating, however, when the Constitutional Court annulled the verdict in a confusing decision that raised questions of outside interference. Widespread impunity for past and present violence continues to have a corrosive effect on the country's democracy. Failure to renew the trial for mass atrocities against Ríos Montt and pursue justice for the victims of violent crime would undermine its halting progress toward rule of law, including a strong independent judiciary.
Author: Open Society Justice Initiative Publisher: ISBN: 9781936133994 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Efrain Rios Montt, the former military ruler of Guatemala, was convicted on May 10, 2013, of genocide and crimes against humanity by a court in Guatemala City. Three days later the conviction was overthrown by the country's constitutional court on procedural grounds. This book documents this attempt to provide local justice for mass crimes, by providing a summary of the six week trial, based on the daily reports on the www.riosmontt-trial.org website. Also available is an extended partial English translation of key sections of the conviction, and a translated text of the constitutional court ruling that led to the cancellation of the guilty verdict against Rios Montt, together with two dissenting opinions.
Author: Open Society Justice Initiative Publisher: ISBN: 9781936133994 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Efrain Rios Montt, the former military ruler of Guatemala, was convicted on May 10, 2013, of genocide and crimes against humanity by a court in Guatemala City. Three days later the conviction was overthrown by the country's constitutional court on procedural grounds. This book documents this attempt to provide local justice for mass crimes, by providing a summary of the six week trial, based on the daily reports on the www.riosmontt-trial.org website. Also available is an extended partial English translation of key sections of the conviction, and a translated text of the constitutional court ruling that led to the cancellation of the guilty verdict against Rios Montt, together with two dissenting opinions.
Author: Elizabeth A Oglesby Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367891459 Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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In Guatemala, it was called the "trial of the century": the 2013 prosecution of former de facto head of state (1982-1983) General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his intelligence chief, General José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya-Ixil people. Ríos Montt's seventeen-month reign was one of the bloodiest periods in Guatemala's history, with "scorched earth" massacres, the destruction of hundreds of Maya communities, and militarized resettlement of Mayas into "model villages." Ríos Montt was convicted on all charges. Ten days later, a higher court vacated the verdict on dubious procedural grounds. Nevertheless, Guatemala's genocide trial, held in the domestic courts in the country where the crimes were committed, was precedent-setting. In this volume, Guatemalan and international scholars rigorously explore the complexities of the Guatemala experience and reflect upon the case's implications for understanding and prosecuting the category of genocide more broadly. Topics include: the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency in explaining Guatemala's genocide; the politics of Maya collective memory; the intersections of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in genocide; the decades-long interconnections of national and transnational justice processes that brought the case to trial; and the limits and contributions of tribunal justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 103
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This is an extended partial English translation of key sections of the conviction of Efrain Rios Montt, the former military ruler of Guatemala. He was convicted on May 10, 2013, of genocide and crimes against humanity by a court in Guatemala City. Three days later the conviction was overthrown by the country's constitutional court on procedural grounds. An accompanying report at the same website documents this attempt to provide local justice for mass crimes, by providing a summary of the six week trial, based on the daily reports on the www.riosmontt-trial.org website. Also available is a translated text of the constitutional court ruling that led to the cancelation of the guilty verdict against Rios Montt, together with two dissenting opinions.
Author: Ellen L. Lutz Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521491096 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 349
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The meteoric rise in criminal prosecutions of former heads of state is examined for the first time in this probing and engaging narrative.
Author: Elizabeth A. Oglesby Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351401327 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
In Guatemala, it was called the "trial of the century": the 2013 prosecution of former de facto head of state (1982-1983) General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his intelligence chief, General José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya-Ixil people. Ríos Montt's seventeen-month reign was one of the bloodiest periods in Guatemala's history, with "scorched earth" massacres, the destruction of hundreds of Maya communities, and militarized resettlement of Mayas into "model villages." Ríos Montt was convicted on all charges. Ten days later, a higher court vacated the verdict on dubious procedural grounds. Nevertheless, Guatemala's genocide trial, held in the domestic courts in the country where the crimes were committed, was precedent-setting. In this volume, Guatemalan and international scholars rigorously explore the complexities of the Guatemala experience and reflect upon the case's implications for understanding and prosecuting the category of genocide more broadly. Topics include: the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency in explaining Guatemala's genocide; the politics of Maya collective memory; the intersections of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in genocide; the decades-long interconnections of national and transnational justice processes that brought the case to trial; and the limits and contributions of tribunal justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.
Author: D. Rothenberg Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137011149 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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This edited, one-volume version presents the first ever English translation of the report of The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), a truth commission that exposed the details of 'la violenca,' during which hundreds of massacres were committed in a scorched-earth campaign that displaced approximately one million people.
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Author: Ellen L. Lutz
Author: Elizabeth A. Oglesby
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Author: Mary Jo McConahay