FILE PHOTO: Guatemalan retired Gen. Efrain Rios Montt answers questions during an interview with Reuters at his Guatemala City office, July 2, 2002. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan military dictator Efrain Rios Montt, hounded by charges of genocide for decades, died on Sunday aged 91, leaving bitter memories of his bloody stewardship of the Central American nation during its civil war.
Thousands of mostly rural Maya civilians were victims of massacre, rape and torture under a "scorched earth" policy implemented during his 17-month rule between 1982 and 1983 at the height of the Cold War-era conflict.
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