Edinburgh Evening News, UK
SIX former paramilitary fighters have gone on trial in Guatemala for killing scores of women and children in a 1982 massacre.
According to a 1999 United Nations-backed report, soldiers and paramilitaries raped women and smashed children’s heads open on rocks during the massacre of 143 Maya Indians in the village of Rio Negro.
Survivors say the accused, also Maya Indians from a neighbouring village, were sent to kill Rio Negro residents because they refused to abandon their lands to allow Guatemala’s electricity authority Inde to build a dam funded by the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.
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