{"id":89170,"date":"2013-05-29T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=89170"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:38:37","slug":"the-unstoppable-pursuit-of-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-unstoppable-pursuit-of-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unstoppable Pursuit Of Crimes Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0Jonathan Power &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Last week also saw the conviction of Guatemala\u2019s former head of state, Efrain Rios Montt, aged 86, for genocide \u2013 the mass murder of the country\u2019s indigenous people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89167\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/jonathan-power-may-29-2013\/jonathapower\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89167\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-89167\" title=\"Jonatha+Power\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jonatha+Power-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jonatha+Power-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jonatha+Power-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Power<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1985 he was convicted of torture and murder. In 1990 he was pardoned by President Carlos Menem. In 2010 the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court decision to overturn his pardon. Last year in another trial he was convicted of overseeing the systematic theft of around 400 babies from political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/oped\/The-unstoppable-pursuit-of-crimes-against-humanity\/-\/1840568\/1860384\/-\/item\/1\/-\/yycxcgz\/-\/index.html\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":89167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Unstoppable Pursuit Of Crimes Against Humanity - 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