How Aristocrats Have Gotten Away with Even Mass-Murder
On 8 July 2015, in a pervasively ignored but historically very important news event (briefly mentioned by the BBC),
the only trial ever in which a former head of state was convicted in
his own country for genocide — in the long court case of Ronald Reagan’s
friend Guatemalan General Rios Montt — finally petered out via a
declaration by a Guatemalan court, alleging that Montt’s 10 May 2013
Guatemalan conviction and 80-year prison sentence (never served) for
genocide, must now simply be abandoned, because Montt is supposedly
«mentally incompetent to stand trial». Though a retrial of his case had been promised,
it probably won’t happen. Guatemala’s aristocracy seem to have blocked
any and all penalty for their General and former President’s genocide.
the only trial ever in which a former head of state was convicted in
his own country for genocide — in the long court case of Ronald Reagan’s
friend Guatemalan General Rios Montt — finally petered out via a
declaration by a Guatemalan court, alleging that Montt’s 10 May 2013
Guatemalan conviction and 80-year prison sentence (never served) for
genocide, must now simply be abandoned, because Montt is supposedly
«mentally incompetent to stand trial». Though a retrial of his case had been promised,
it probably won’t happen. Guatemala’s aristocracy seem to have blocked
any and all penalty for their General and former President’s genocide.
The
pro-aristocracy Constitutional Court of Guatemala had ruled on 20 May
2013 to throw out General Montt’s conviction for systematic genocide to
exterminate entire villages of Mayans, exterminating them in order to
keep in power Guatemala’s mainly Spanish-derived aristocrats, commonly
called the nation’s «oligarchs». Montt had been supplied the weapons and
financial backing for his genocide by Ronald Reagan’s U.S., and by
Menachim Begin’s Israel, and none of those tyrants was executed or
imprisoned either. The Reagan Administration had arranged for Israeli
weapons to be sent to the Guatemalan Army to carry out the genocide,
because doing it this way (instead of by using U.S. weapons) would
reduce congressional involvement and consequent possible U.S. news-media
coverage of this Guatemalan-American-Israeli genocide of Guatemalan
Mayans. Like in the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan found weapons-shellgames around Congressional oversight.
pro-aristocracy Constitutional Court of Guatemala had ruled on 20 May
2013 to throw out General Montt’s conviction for systematic genocide to
exterminate entire villages of Mayans, exterminating them in order to
keep in power Guatemala’s mainly Spanish-derived aristocrats, commonly
called the nation’s «oligarchs». Montt had been supplied the weapons and
financial backing for his genocide by Ronald Reagan’s U.S., and by
Menachim Begin’s Israel, and none of those tyrants was executed or
imprisoned either. The Reagan Administration had arranged for Israeli
weapons to be sent to the Guatemalan Army to carry out the genocide,
because doing it this way (instead of by using U.S. weapons) would
reduce congressional involvement and consequent possible U.S. news-media
coverage of this Guatemalan-American-Israeli genocide of Guatemalan
Mayans. Like in the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan found weapons-shellgames around Congressional oversight.
