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Weekly Report - 23 June 2011 (WR-11-25)
GUATEMALA : A timely return to the past for Colom
"A major step towards justice" is how human rights NGO Amnesty International described the recent arrest of former general, Héctor Mario López Fuentes who has been charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and forced disappearances during the civil war (1960-1996). The arrest of López Fuentes, the first former military official to be accused of genocide, comes amid other signs that President Alvaro Colom's pledge to redress past military injustices is bearing fruit. Sceptics point to electoral motives behind the current push for justice however; a renewed focus on the war, which left some 200,000 people dead, and 40,000 missing, mainly at the hands of the military, could prove uncomfortable for ex general Otto Pérez Molina - frontrunner and chief rival of former First Lady Sandra Torres de Colom's Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE), ahead of September's elections.
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