Court orders compensation for victims of sexual violence in armed conflict

A court issued on Wednesday, June 4, 18 measures from compensation In favor of six indigenous women by the Sexual violation suffered during the Internal armed conflict at the hands of three condemned paramilitaries Last week to 40 years in prison.

The measures were imposed by the Court of greatest risk “B” of the judicial agency after the sentence of May 30 against the three paramilitarsentenced to 40 years in prison, after four months of judicial process against him.

Among the 18 “repair measures”, as defined by legislation, is the payment of a compensation by the State that has not been disclosed for each of the six victims of the sexual violations.

Similarly, an act of public apologies by the government and plans of health, education and dwelling for the families of the six aggravated.

The court ordered in the same sense to award a land property suitable for the dwelling and crop For each of the six victimsin the communities where they reside.

The 40 -year jail sentence was issued on May 30 against Pedro Sánchez Cortez, Simeón Enriquez Gómez and Félix Tum Ramírezwho were part of a civil self -defense patrol organized by the Guatemalan Army during the Internal armed conflict.

The three syndicates were released in 2019 by a judge for the same crime, but they had to face a new public and oral debate due that the defense of the victims acted an appeal that was accepted by considering that the liberation of the paramilitar It was arbitrary.

The violations took place between 1981 and 1983 in the department of Alta Verapazspecifically in the municipality of Rabinalabout 200 kilometers north of Guatemala City.

This period was one of the bloodiest of Internal armed conflict Guatemala lived between 1960 and 1996 and left more than 250,000 people killed either missingmost at the hands of Stateaccording to reports of international organizations.