Guate: Rios Montt genocide trial / 2nd day of conclusions, Prosecution wraps up

[Catherina]

56. Court reconvenes. Defense closing arguments to continue. PowerPoints of Impunity

OMG, I thought they were done. How many ways can they say "There was no genocide and we're not responsible for any collateral damages of our little civil war?"

NISGUA ‏@NISGUA_Guate 15m

- Judge Barrios reconvenes the #GenocideGT trial announcing conclusions will continue with #RodriguezSanchez's lawyer Cesar Calderon.

- Barrios announces Public Defender Otto Ramírez filed denouncement stating his free movement was limited because he wasn't relieved of his obligation

- #CésarCalderón begins: During the next several minutes, I'm going to conclude the part that corresponds to #RodríguezSánchez

- #CésarCalderón yells what he refers to as questions of historic character: There was no war, there were internal disturbances/irregular war

- #CésarCalderón: There's a divorce between the accusation & declaration of more than 100 prosecution witnesses and some of the experts.

- #CésarCalderón comments on grammar: "Army" is a collective noun. It's an institution, not a person. Each witness was asked about the army.

- #CésarCalderón: Today if we go to the military, to Ministry of Defense, Interior Min., we will no doubt find plans similar to Victoria 82.

- #CésarCalderón making generalizations of #GenocideGT trial: We have heard a half, mutilated and selected truth.

- #CésarCalderón: 100 Ixiles came here to deny there was a guerrilla. There was guerrilla.

- #CésarCalderón: One of Ixiles who testified might have been campesino by day but not by night. By night, they might have killed soldiers.

- #CésarCalderón: When the military was able to win over the population, they won the war. This was a govt of development & integration.

Xeni Jardin ‏@xeni 3s

I believe this phase of the trial is what’s known as “PowerPoints of Impunity.”