(Spanish below) On November, 28 The First Chamber of Appeals accepted an injuction filed by the defense of Manuel Benedicto Lucas García to disqualify the High Risk Crimes Court A, claiming that the Tribunal is unfit to continue the oral and public proceedings. This decision has derailed the trial [...]
7 de noviembre del 2024 La defensa del acusado, el General Manuel Benedicto Lucas García, buscó retrasar el juicio al solicitar que un perito del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses (INACIF) confirmara si la munición calibre 5.56 fue de uso exclusivo del ejército de Guatemala durante el Conflicto Armado [...]
Monday, September 9, hearing 69 The expert witness Claudia Eugenia Rivera Fernandez appeared and ratified 4 expert reports. The first is related to the exhumation carried out in Acul, Nebaj, Quiché on April 20, 1998. In this exhumation, 23 people were recovered who, according to testimonies, were killed by [...]
This week 9 witnesses of massacres and one witness of sexual violence testified in Santa Maria Nebaj against Lucas Garcia for the massacres and crimes committed in 1982. Outside the courthouse in Nebaj, a banner commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 2013 genocide sentence is seen, which was placed [...]
Fotografía de perito presentando las conclusiones de su peritaje antropólogico forense ante el Tribunal. Foto: FGER Lunes 8 de julio Audiencia 44 Esta semana, continuó la presencia en la sala de audiencias de la delegación de jóvenes guatemaltecos- estadounidenses para mostrar su solidaridad con los querellantes, testigos y [...]
On January 4, the oral and public debate for the Ixil Lucas García genocide case was scheduled to begin. A day before, a hearing was held to conclude on the mental health of Manuel Callejas y Callejas. The court resolved the cessation of criminal prosecution in an ordinary trial [...]
During the time of the military government of Romeo Lucas García (1978-1982), the Guatemalan state and army designed and implemented its policy of genocide. While Romero Lucas García was in power, more than 1,700 people were victims of the crimes of genocide, forced disappearance and crimes against humanity by [...]