The Dos Erres massacre on December 6, 1982 took place at Dos Erres, a small village in the municipality of La Libertad, in the PetÃÆ'n © n department of northern Guatemala. The village name, sometimes given as "Las Dos Erres", literally means "two R", derived from two siblings named Ruano who received the original land grant.
On December 6, 1982, during the reign of President General EfraÃÆ'n RÃÆ'os Montt, more than 200 people were killed there by commandos serving as government troops as part of the government's scorched earth policy, where up to 200,000 people were killed. indigenous people and Maya tribes died.
In December 2011 President ÃÆ'lvaro Colom made an official apology for the massacre on behalf of the Guatemalan government, and many months after the four soldiers were sentenced to 6,060 years in prison for their involvement in the massacre. In March 2012, a fifth soldier, Pedro Pimentel Rios, was sentenced to more than 6,060 years in prison for his participation in the event. Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, "one of the lieutenants" of the commandos, was found guilty in the fall of 2013 from immigration scams in a California court.
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Peristiwa Desember 1982
In October 1982, guerrillas ambushed an army convoy near Palestine, around Dos Erres. They killed 21 soldiers and took 19 rifles. On December 4, a contingent of 58 Kaibiles (special forces of the elite forces of the Guatemalan Army) was flown to the area. The next day, they received orders to impersonate guerrillas, spread to Dos Erres and kill the population, who were considered guerrilla sympathizers. Clothed as guerrillas, Kaibiles arrived at the village at 2:30 on December 6th. They force people out of their homes, trap people in school buildings and women and children in two hamlets in the village. The next search did not find any sign of gun or guerrilla propaganda. At 6 o'clock, officers consulted superiors over the radio, then told the command that they would "vaccinate" the population after breakfast.
In the afternoon, Kaibiles separates the children, and starts killing them. They raped women and girls, and tore the fetus out of pregnant women. They hit the smallest children's heads against the walls and trees, and kill the elderly with a hammer blow to the head. The baby is the first to be killed, by throwing the baby alive into a well as deep as 4 meters, along with the rest of the body afterwards. Then the command interrogated men and women one by one, raped several more women, then shot or hit them with a hammer, and threw them in a well. The massacre continued for 7 December. On the morning of December 8, when Kaibiles was preparing to leave, 15 others, among them children, arrived in the village. With a well filled, they took new arrivals to a half hour location, then shot all but two of them. They arrested two teenage girls over the next few days, raping them repeatedly and finally choking them. Only one survivor of this massacre, a small boy who managed to escape.
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Legal process
In 1994 a case was presented in Guatemala to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the massacre. However, the case remains paralyzed in the Guatemalan judicial system and shows no signs of progress.
In 2000, President Alfonso Portillo recognized the government's responsibility for the massacre. He acknowledged the deaths of 226 victims at the hands of state agents, humbly apologized on behalf of the state, and presented the survivors with a check worth US $ 1.82 million.
In 2009, the IACHR stated that the 1996 amnesty law does not apply to the most serious crimes committed during the civil war. This was followed by an investigation in the United States against people suspected of involvement in the massacre. In May 2010, American-born Gilberto Jordan, a former member of Kaibiles's special forces, was accused of involvement in the massacre and was arrested in Florida by US Immigration and Customs officials. On September 16, 2010, after his role in the massacre was set up in a Miami court, Jordan was convicted of naturalization scams and serving a 10-year prison sentence at FCI Miami. She is expected to be released on March 29, 2019.
In January 2011, Jorge Vinicio Orantes Sosa, another former Kaibil member suspected of involvement in the massacre, was arrested in Alberta for allegedly lying to immigration authorities. In September 2011, the US authorities formally requested the extradition of Sosa from Canada to the United States to face charges of making false statements and unlawful citizenship, in connection with his arrival from Guatemala to the United States several years after the massacre. Sosa, who has Canadian and American citizenship, is also sought by the Guatemalan authorities. On September 21, 2012, Canada extradited Sosa to the United States, where he was tried.
On July 25, 2011, the office of Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz began his trial in Guatemala City against four former special forces armies of Kaibiles who were accused of participating in the massacre.
On August 2, 2011, the court found four soldiers, Manuel Pop, Reyes Collin Gualip, Daniel MartÃÆ'nez HernÃÆ'¡ndez and Lieutenant Carlos CarÃÆ'as guilty of the massacre. They were sentenced to more than 6,000 years each in prison.
On March 12, 2012, Pedro Pimentel Rios was sentenced to 6,060 years in symbolic prison for his involvement in the massacre. On May 25, 2012, the American American public radio show "This American Life" aired an episode titled "What Happened At Dos Erres" which covered the survivor story of the massacre, Oscar Ramirez. On July 24, 2012 CBC Program Radio One "Metamorphosis" aired an interview with another victim, Ramiro Cristales.
References
- The earliest version of the slaughter narrative has been modified and edited from Guatemala: Kaibiles and Massacre in Las Dos Erres, a request document for public domain information requests from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
External links
- What Happens to Dos Erres ?, This American Life May 2012
- Looking for Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala, ProPublica
- How The Media Gets The Guatemala Error Dos Error Wrong. The Real News , 2 August 2013
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