Spanish judge shelves Guatemalan genocide probe
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A Spanish judge probing genocide over 36 years of civil war that left some 200,000 people dead or “disappeared” in Guatemala shelved his quest Wednesday, a court official told AFP.
Santiago Pedraz was handed the dossier after an October 2005 Spanish constitutional court decision authorising the country to investigate crimes against humanity wherever they took place.
But, fresh from Alvaro Colom being sworn in as Guatemala’s new president on Monday, Pedraz has admitted total frustration in his epic inquiry following “the refusal of the Guatemalan authorities to cooperate”.”*
*From: afp.google.com
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