Ailing Guatemalan ex-dictator requests retrial absence (Genocide)

[Judi Lynn]

Ailing Guatemalan ex-dictator requests retrial absence
AFP
January 3, 2015, 5:56 am

Guatemala City (AFP) - Lawyers for Guatemalan ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday he is too sick to attend court next week, when he faces a retrial for genocide over the killings of indigenous people in the 1980s.

"The health condition of General Rios (Montt) has been deteriorating during the past year and doctors are watching him very closely to see if he's in good enough shape to attend on Monday," Luis Rosales, a lawyer for Rios Montt, told AFP.

The lawyer had asked the court if Rios Montt could be absent. He said the 88-year-old suffers from back problems due to his advanced age, as well as heart and eye issues that would worsen during a lengthy trial.

Rios Montt "is being treated with absolute rest, and doctors say he is only allowed to move to go to the bathroom, nothing else," Rosales said, noting that the military continues to keep his client under house arrest in an upscale part of the capital.

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[easychoice]

1. Show him all the pity he showed the dead.

He can rot with Ronnie and Nancy when he catches up to them.