GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemala City court ruled on Wednesday that the crime of genocide had been perpetrated during the darkest hours of the country's long civil war, but acquitted a former military intelligence chief of the killings.
The verdict was the latest development in a stop-start search for justice by victims since the conflict ended in 1996.
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