Military Guatemala receives 5160 years of imprisonment

A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 5160 years in prison for the mass murder of 171 people.

According to the prosecutors, Santos Lopez participated in the mass murder in the village of Dos Erres in 1982, where almost all men, women and children were killed. Lopez was part of an army elite unit that had been sent to the village to eliminate members of a guerrilla group.