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Guatemalan war survivors face justice, pain

By Take Two Staff
Published Feb 10, 2014
Mario Avila, left, and Eduardo Estrada hold up a banner memorializing Guatemala's wartime "desaparecidos," people who disappeared during the country's 36-year civil war. They and others were planning to caravan to the Riverside sentencing of accused Guatemalan war criminal Jorge Sosa, who was convicted on immigration fraud charges and faces eventual deportation.
Mario Avila, left, and Eduardo Estrada hold up a banner memorializing Guatemala's wartime "desaparecidos," people who disappeared during the country's 36-year civil war. They and others were planning to caravan to the Riverside sentencing of accused Guatemalan war criminal Jorge Sosa, who was convicted on immigration fraud charges and faces eventual deportation.
(
Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC
)

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Guatemalan war survivors face justice, pain

Update: Ex-Guatemalan soldier sentenced to 10 years in prison; for war survivors, justice and pain

Accused Guatemalan war criminal Jorge Sosa is scheduled to be sentenced this morning in Riverside for immigration fraud.

He could be deported to face trial for his role in a 1982 massacre, during the height of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

The notoriety surrounding his trial has had a two-fold effect on Guatemalan refugees.

They are haunted by memories of wartime violence... but they don't want the world to forget.

KPCC's Leslie Berestein Rojas has the story.