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Guatemala City, Guatemala – Marcia Mendez never stopped looking for her sister. Now, with the disappearance of Guatemalan military forces from Luz Haydee and a few decades later, justice may be on the horizon after a Guatemalan judge ordered a trial for crimes committed in the 1980s. “This is a big step forward for us already,” Mendez told Al Jazeera outside the Guatemala City courthouse complex after a hearing last week. Luz Haydee Mendez Calderon was arrested and disappeared in 1984, approximately 45,000 people disappeared In the Guatemalan civil war. Approximately 200,000 people were killed during the 1960-1996 armed conflict. At the time, Mendez Calderon was the secretary of international relations for the Guatemalan Labor Party, which was forced underground after the U.S.-backed coup in 1954 and became one of the armed groups fighting with the military in the 36-year conflict.

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