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Former Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt Hospitalized After Fainting

HeadlineMay 14, 2013

Former Guatemalan military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been taken to a military hospital after fainting while en route to a court hearing. Montt was jailed Friday to begin an 80-year sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity for his role the killings of more than 1,700 Ixil Mayan people in the early 1980s.

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