GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's high court on Wednesday handed decades-long prison sentences to four former high-ranking military officers convicted of rape and forced disappearances during the country's bloody civil war that has yielded few criminal convictions.
General Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia, brother of the late Guatemalan president, Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, and once head of the army's general staff, was sentenced to 58 years.
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