1982 government killing of civilians in El Petén, Guatemala
Dos Erres massacre
Part of the Guatemalan Civil War
Dos Erres
Dos Erres massacre (Guatemala)
Location
Dos Erres, Guatemala
Date
6–8 December 1982; 41 years ago (1982-12-08)
Target
Civilians of Dos Erres
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths
200+
Perpetrators
Kaibiles
Convicted
Carlos Antonio Carias López
Daniel Martínez Martínez
Reyes Collin Gualip
Manuel Pop
Pedro Pimentel Ríos
(all sentenced to 6,060 years)
Jorge Sosa
Gilberto Jordan
(both sentenced 10 years on immigration fraud charges in the United States)
The Dos Erres massacre of 6 December 1982 took place in Dos Erres, a small village in the municipality of La Libertad, in the northern Petén department of Guatemala. The name of the village, occasionally given as "Las Dos Erres", literally means "two Rs", originating from two brothers called Ruano who received the original land grant.[1]
On 6 December 1982, during the de facto presidency of General Efraín Ríos Montt, over 200 people were killed in Dos Erres by commandos working as government forces as a part of the government's scorched earth policy, in which up to 200,000 indigenous and Mayan people died.[1]
In December 2011, President Álvaro Colom made a formal apology for the massacre on behalf of the Guatemalan government. Months later, four soldiers were sentenced to 6,060 years prison for their part in the massacre.[2] In March 2012, a fifth soldier, Pedro Pimentel Ríos, was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison for his participation in the events.[3] In fall 2013, Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, "one of the lieutenants" of the commandos, was found guilty of immigration fraud in a court in California and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Another soldier who later became a naturalized American, Gilberto Jordan, had been found guilty of naturalization fraud in September 2010. He also received a 10-year sentence, and has since been deported to Guatemala.[4][5]
^ abCEH [Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico] (1999). "Caso ilustrativo no. 31 – Masacre de las Dos Erres". Guatemala, Memoria del silencio(online reproduction by the Science and Human Rights Program of the AAAS). Guatemala City: CEH. ISBN 99922-54-00-9. OCLC 47279275. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
^"Guatemala apologises for massacre". 15 December 2011 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
^"Guatemala Dos Erres massacre soldier given 6,060 years". BBC. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
^"Dos Erres Conviction". This American Life. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
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