Guatemalan military officers carry the coffin containing the body of former Guatemalan military dictator Efrain Rios Montt, during his funeral at the cemetery in Guatemala City, April 1, 2018. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan military dictator Efrain Rios Montt died at the age of 91 on Sunday, a bitterly divisive figure in the country's long civil war who escaped a 2013 genocide conviction only to face renewed charges last year.
At the time of his death, which his lawyer, Luis Rosales, announced, Rios Montt was again on trial for genocide for his role during one of the bloodiest phases of the Cold War-era conflict that lasted from 1960 until 1996.
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