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Guatemala ex-soldier jailed for over 5,000 years for 1982 massacre

A Guatemalan court sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison on Wednesday for the massacre of 171 people in what is considered one of the worst atrocities in that country’s 36-year civil war.

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