The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 was awarded to Rigoberta Menchú Tum "for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"
Five former paramilitary soldiers on Monday were sentenced to 30 years in jail for sexually abusing 36 indigenous women during the country’s civil war.
“We the judges firmly believe the testimonies of the women who were sexually violated,” judge Gervi Sical said in the ruling against the five former members of Guatemala’s Civil Self-Defense Patrols.
The group was blamed for several atrocities during the 1960-1996 war in which an estimated 200,000 people were killed or disappeared.
Sical said that the sentences were handed down for crimes against humanity.
The five men brothers Benvenuto and Bernardo Ruiz, aged 63 and 57, and relatives Damian,