A Guatemala court has sentenced
two former members of
the military to 360 years in jail for the murder,
rape and
sexual enslavement of indigenous women..

Francisco Reyes Giron Heriberto Valdez Asij were
found
guilty of crimes against humanity.
The historic ruling is the first successful prosecution
for
sexual violence committed during Guatemala's
military
conflict in the 1980s.
There were jubilant scenes in court as the judge read
out
the sentence.

"This is historic, it is a great step for women and above
all
for the victims," said Nobel Peace Prize winner
Rigoberta
Menchu, who attended the hearing.
Francisco Reyes Giron, who was the commander of the
Sepur Zarco military base, was found guilty of holding
15
women in sexual and domestic slavery and for killing
one
woman and her two daughters.
Heriberto Valdez Asij, a paramilitary who carried out
commissions for the army, was convicted for the same
enslavement, as well as the forced disappearance of
seven
men.


The victims have been demanding accountability for
the
crimes at Sepur Zarco for decades.
"We were raped, all of this happened. If it wasn't like
this,
where are our husbands? We don't know where they
are,"
said Demesia Yac, 70, who acted as a representative
for
the women.

The court had heard harrowing details about what
went on
at the base in the eastern highlands during the 1980s.


According to the prosecution, in 1982 armed forces
repeatedly attacked the village of Sepur Zarco and
killed or
took away Mayan leaders who had been applying for
land
titles and had angered local landowners.


The men were accused of being associated with left-
wing
guerrillas.
Agustin Chen, one of the men who survived said the
soldiers took him to a cell and beat him every day.

"They killed seven people, throwing two grenades into
the
pit where they had put them."

The court heard how military commanders considered
the
women to be "available" without their men and had
then
taken them into sexual and domestic slavery.


They were required to report every third day to the
base for
"shifts" during which they were raped, sexually
abused,
and forced to cook and clean for the soldiers.

In a report to the court, anthropologist Irma Alicia
Velasquez Nimatuj said military outposts were
installed in
the region "to give security to the landowner's farms
and
to take possession of the lands".

For some of the victims, their ordeal lasted as long as
six
years until the base was closed in 1988.

Source: http://anitsdavid..co.ke/2016/02/man-to-be-jailed-360-years-for-raping.html

360 years?? And they said the Law is not an ass.
Why not just use the phrase 'Life Sentence',instead of ridiculing their Legal system?
Anyways,wetin 'consign' me??






FTC!

na him time make him enjoy am

Chineke! He is finished.

CHINEKE! THEY HAVE FINIS