Retired General Manuel Benedicto Lucas GarcÃa is on trial for his part in the massacre of Indigenous Guatemalans during the country's decades-long civil war.By David Agren, OSV News MEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- A retired Guatemalan military commander – considered "one of the bloodiest generals in the history of Latin America" by survivors of the repression he oversaw -- has gone on trial for genocide, offering a possible last opportunity for justice for aging victims of targeted attacks on Indigenous villages during the country's armed conflict. Manuel Benedicto Lucas GarcÃa, former head of the Guatemalan army for eight months in the early 1980s, is standing trial on charges of genocide,...
