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                     Guatemalan Dictator Guilty of Genocide

   A Guatemalan court has found former dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty
   of genocide and crimes against humanity.
   A judge in Guatemala City sentenced the 86-year-old to 80 years in
   prison -- 50 years for genocide and 30 years for crimes against
   humanity.
   Rios Montt was convicted of ordering the deaths of 1,771 people of the
   Ixil Maya ethnic group during his time in office in 1982 and 1983.
   The retired general had denied the charges, saying he neither knew of
   nor ordered the massacres while in power.
   He is expected to appeal the court`s decision.
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