Posted on 03/12/2012 10:25:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison Monday for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 massacre.
Pedro Pimentel Rios was the fifth former special forces soldier sentenced to 6,060 years or more for what became known as the "Dos Erres" massacre after the northern Guatemala hamlet where the killings occurred during the country's 1960-1996 civil war.
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And afterwards, he goes to he’ll for an infinite years.
I hear he’s eligible for parole in the year 4415.
The prisoners are probably going to make this person’s life very short.
that’ll larn ‘im
I wonder if he’ll get any credit for time served.
What crap. Shoot him.
I do not think so.
These guys fought this proxy war against Communism for us; like the Argentine junta, Pinochet, and Manuel Noriega they were hung out to dry when the wall came down.
Anyone in a foreign country who even dreams of supporting the US has a lot to learn from these episodes, while we wonder why so much of the world looks to Red China; they have no track record of this (yet).
It’s just a dramatic way of saying “life without parole.”
A good lawyer could have gotten that sentence cut in half.
Time to reassemble OJ’s Dream Team.
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