6,060-year sentence for CULPRITS of Las Dos Erres Massacre

A Guatemalan court sentenced a small group of solders to 6,060 years in prison each  for the 1982 massacre of over 200 men, women and children in 1982 at the height of the country’s brutal 36-year civil war.The length of the sentence is largely symbolic because Guatemala's laws only allow inmates to serve a maximum of 50 years.

The five soldiers — Carlos Carias, Manuel Pop, Reyes Collin Gualip ,Daniel Martinez Hernandez and Pedro Pimentel Rios  were all given 30 years of prison for the deaths of each of the 201 people killed in the attack, which occurred in the northern Guatemalan village of Las Dos Erres. 

Pedro Pimentel Rios 

                                                     

In December 1982, several dozen soldiers stormed Dos Erres, searched homes for missing weapons and systematically killed men, women and children. Soldiers bludgeoned villagers with a sledgehammer, threw them down a well, and raped women and girls before killing them,