Former Guatemalan leader at 'genocide' hearing

Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s.

Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s.

Rios Montt has been accused of being responsible for some of the worse massacres during the Central American country’s 36 years of civil war.

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