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30. Montt: The Workers Party went to kill & spill blood. Now I'm the one with the charges?

Thu May 9, 2013, 02:23 PM

May 2013

NISGUA ‏@NISGUA_Guate 12m

#RiosMontt: Those men of the PGT (GUA Workers Party) went to kill & spill blood. Now I'm the one with the charges.

PlazaPública en Vivo ‏@PzPenVivo 11m

- #RiosMontt No hay cadena de mando, hay jerarquía. El responsable del área Ixil es el comandante de Quiché, o de la fuerza de tarea Gumarcaj
There was no chain of command, no hierarchy. The head of the Ixil was the commander of Quiche, or Task Force Gumarcaj

- #RiosMontt: me declaro inocente. Nunca he tenido la intención de destruir a ninguna etnia nacional.
I plead innocent. I've never had the intention of destroying any national ethnicity.

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena ‏@romireports 11m

#RiosMontt: "Your honor,I declare myself innocent. I never had intention or purpose of destroying any ethnic group" #GenocideGT

NISGUA ‏@NISGUA_Guate 11m

- #RiosMontt insists local commanders are responsible for what happened in Ixil. For ex, head of Gurmacaaj forces.

- A small group of #RiosMontt supporters applaud him upon conclusion of his statement. Barrios hushes the crowd.

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military control Beatriz Manz encountered in the Ixil Catherina May 2013 #2

Trial SamKnause May 2013 #3

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Montt: "I never ordered acts against an ethnicity or religion. Never!.. I was not a zone commander!" Catherina May 2013 #27

Montt: I looked at Plan Victoria 82, there's nothing written abt objective to destroy a people Catherina May 2013 #28

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Montt: The Workers Party went to kill & spill blood. Now I'm the one with the charges? Catherina May 2013 #30

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Montt lawyer: Against my will, I will give my statements in a state of hunger. Catherina May 2013 #32

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