Massacre Survivors to Get Compensation
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An international court has ordered Guatemala to pay a record $7.9 million in compensation to survivors of a 1982 army-led massacre of hundreds of civilians in the country’s Maya Indian heartland, court officials said.
Troops entered the hilltop hamlet of Plan de Sanchez, raping women before herding villagers into a building and blowing it up. A total of 268 people were killed.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling requires the government to pay $25,000 to each of the 317 massacre survivors, plus legal costs.
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