The Massacre of a Trial for Genocide

<p>Benedicto Lucas García, a star paratrooper trained by the French and Americans, was an icon of the Guatemalan counterinsurgency. More than four decades after the horror, as a group of Maya Ixil victims trekked from the mountains of Quiché to Guatemala City to demand accountability for the days when Benedicto’s troops razed their villages, they found a justice system in ruins. The ninety-two-year-old retired general was about to launch his final counteroffensive in a trial collapsing from within.</p>

Roman Gressier Yuliana Ramazzini