FILE PHOTO: Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt attends a hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, November 19, 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will face a second trial on Friday for genocide, a lawyer for victims said, reviving a case against the strongman accused of ordering massacres of Maya Indians during a long civil war.
Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala in 1982 and 1983 after a military coup, was convicted of genocide four years ago along with another military officer but the ruling was overturned.
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