Meanwhile, in Guatemala a former top military official has become the first person to be convicted of committing disappearances under the Guatemalan junta. Former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero was found guilty of the forced disappearances of six peasant farmers in the early 1980s. Cusanero was convicted before a packed courtroom filled with Mayan villagers and relatives of the disappeared. Hundreds of thousands of people died under the junta, with most of the killings committed by the Guatemalan army.