New Internationalist, September 1st, 2001
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about General Efrain Rios Montt is his brother. In May 1998 Bishop Mario Rios Montt succeeded the assassinated Bishop Juan Gerardi as head of the Catholic Church's human-rights office in Guatemala. His task is to continue Gerardi's work, uncovering the truth behind the massacre or disappearance of upwards of 200,000 people during the prolonged and continuing 'civil war' -- more accurately described as attempted genocide -- against the indigenous Mayan majority of the Guatemalan population. The person who, in the early 1980s, presided over the most vicious...
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