Guatemala: Former Soldier Involved in Massacre Sentenced  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=487141&Itemid=1

Guatemala City, Mar 13 (Prensa Latina) Guatemalan ex soldier Pedro Pimentel was sentenced on Tuesday to 6,060 years in prison in a trial in which he was prosecuted for a massacre in an indigenous community in 1982.   The three judges dismissed the plea of innocence of the defendant and his lawyers by confirming the veracity of the evidence presented by the prosecutors and the witnesses' testimonies about his involvement in the events. Pimentel was sentenced to 30 years in prison for each of the 201 peasants massacred from December 6 to 8, 1982, in the village of Dos Erres, in the northern department of Peten, and 30 others for crimes against humanity. However, technically, the penalty for the former member of the Kaibiles, the elite force of the Guatemalan Army, is 50 years, because it is the maximum sentence allowed in the Criminal Code. The Dos Erres massacre is considered one of the most famous killings committed by the military, among dozens of them that took place during the domestic armed conflict (1960-1996). [ED NOTES:YES THE KABILLES WERE TRAINED ATUSSCHOOL OF AMERICAS(ASSASSINS)