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May 14, 2013

Former Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt Hospitalized After Fainting 
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Former Guatemalan military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been taken
to a military hospital after fainting while en route to a court hearing.
Montt was jailed Friday to begin an 80-year sentence for genocide and
crimes against humanity for his role the killings of more than 1,700
Ixil Mayan people in the early 1980s.

 

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