VOA News - Peace Laureate Says She Fears for Witnesses in Guatemala Genocide Trial

“Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu has called on a representative of a Guatemalan veterans’ association to cease what she said were threats against witnesses in a trial against several former military officers.

Menchu, an indigenous human rights activist who helped bring the lawsuit, said this week that she fears for the lives of those witnesses. They are testifying against former officers accused of genocide, torture, and murder during Guatemala’s decades-long civil war that ended in 1996.”

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