Guatemala issues 10 warrants for 1984 killings, abductions

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<p>GUATEMALA CITY &mdash; A judge in Guatemala issued arrest warrants Thursday for 10 people accused of abductions, torture, rape and killings in 1984. </p>
<p>The crimes came to light because of a police document covering that year dubbed the “Military Diary.” </p>
<p>Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez confirmed the warrants, but did not identify who the suspects were. Prosecutors confirmed that all 10 had been arrested.</p>
<p>A source close to case who could not speak on the record said that at least one army general and two civilians were among those arrested. </p>
<p>The document that surfaced in 1999 describes the disappearances, abuse and deaths of more than 190 people during Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war.</p>
<p>The typewritten, 74-page document includes annotations in codes like “300,” which experts later discovered meant “killed.” There are 99 names in the document with that code.</p>
<p>One victim was described as a suspected leftist guerrilla, Prudencio de Jesús Carrera Camey. He was held for two weeks and killed. He was 15 years old.</p>
<p>Another entry recorded the detention of university professor Rudy Gustavo Figueroa Muñoz. Abducted on Oct. 12, 1984, he was held for 52 days; his family didn’t know where he was until December, when his body turned up — and the “300” annotation appeared next to his name. </p>
<p>His son Rudy Figueroa was 11 when his father disappeared: “My younger brother was born while he was detained. He never met him.”</p>
<p>Some detainees included in the report survived, but others were never heard from again.</p>
<p>More than 200,000 people died in the civil war, which ended with peace accords in 1996. But more than 45,000 people remain missing. </p>

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