Former Guatemalan soldier accused of atrocities convicted of US immigration fraud

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Former Guatemalan soldier accused of atrocities convicted of US immigration fraud

A Riverside County jury finds Jorge Sosa guilty of lying on his citizenship application. The ex-soldier from Guatemala is accused of participating in the massacre of civilians during Guatemala's civil war.

Relatives of victims of the slaugther of the villa Dos Erres hold roses on August 2, 2011 in Guatemala City during the trial of military men involved. Four members of military where sentenced to over 6000 years on prison for the murder of 252 farmers in 1982, the killing was one of bloodiest slaughters during the 1960-96 civil war.

A Riverside County jury finds Jorge Sosa guilty of lying on his citizenship application. The ex-soldier from Guatemala is accused of participating in the massacre of civilians during Guatemala's civil war.

A former Guatemalan soldier has been found guilty of immigration fraud by a Riverside County jury. What makes this case so unusual is that the soldier, Jorge Sosa, has been accused of participating in the massacre of civilians during his country's bloody civil war in the 1980s

KPCC's Leslie Berestein Rojas has the story.