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Guatemala: Ex dictador to face genocide charges (AP)

Latin America — January 27, 2012 at 22:41

REMOVES INCORRECT REFERENCE TO YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP - Guatemala's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, right, leaves a courtroom in Guatemala City with his daughter, Zury Rios Montt, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Efrain Rios Montt is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s. He has been accused of being responsible for some of the worst massacres during the Central American country's 36 years of civil war. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – The lawyer for ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt says a judge violated his client’s due process when she charged him with genocide.