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Five ex- Guatemalan paramilitaries stand trial for civil war, rape of 36 women

An image is projected on a screen during the trial against five former members of the Civil Defense Patrol (PAC) accused of raping 36 indigenous women of the Achi ethnic group between 1981 and 1985, at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City on January 5, 2022. [Reuters]

Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial on Wednesday on charges of raping 36 women from the indigenous Achi group from 1981 to 1985 during the Central American country's decades-long civil war.

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