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From the Global Post, July 13, 2011

Cytotec shipped c.o.d.

Guatemala’s renewed effort to Cytotec shipped c.o.d. bring justice to the families of 251 people massacred in Dos Erres almost 30 years ago is finding success — with some help from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Pedro Pimentel Rios, 54, was deported from Cytotec shipped c.o.d. Los Angeles to Guatemala on Tuesday to Cytotec shipped c.o.d. face charges for his alleged role in the 1982 massacre while he was a member of elite fighting force the Kaibiles.

Pimentel Rios had Cytotec shipped c.o.d. been a maintenance worker living in Santa Ana, Calif., far from the village where residents’ heads were smashed with sledgehammers and Cytotec shipped c.o.d. their bodies dumped into a well. Girls and women endured repeated rape over two days before being shot or Cytotec shipped c.o.d. strangled to death.

"For the Cytotec shipped c.o.d. families who lost loved ones at Dos Erres, justice has been Cytotec shipped c.o.d. a long time coming, but they can Cytotec shipped c.o.d. take consolation in the fact that those responsible for Cytotec shipped c.o.d. this tragedy are now being held accountable for their crimes," said ICE Director John Morton.

The government-run Kaibiles are believed responsible for many of the worst atrocities of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996. After years of stalled prosecution, in 2009 the Cytotec shipped c.o.d. Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Guatemalan government to investigate and charge those responsible for the massacre.

Pimentel Rios is Cytotec shipped c.o.d. the fourth former Kaibil discovered to be living in the Cytotec shipped c.o.d. U.S. and targeted by ICE as part of its fledgling Human Rights Violators and Cytotec shipped c.o.d. War Crimes Center. Just one month after the massacre, the former solider began working as an instructor at the notorious School of the Americas, then based in Panama.

Gilberto Jordan, 55, now sits in an Cytotec shipped c.o.d. American federal prison, serving a 10-year sentence for failing to disclose his involvement with the Kaibiles and Cytotec shipped c.o.d. Dos Erres on his U.S. citizenship application. Last year GlobalPost broke the story that Cytotec shipped c.o.d. Jordan was living in Delray Beach, Fla. and he later admitted his involvement to Cytotec shipped c.o.d. U.S. investigators.

Two other men, Jorge Vincio Sosa Orantes and Cytotec shipped c.o.d. Santos Lopez Alonzo, face similar charges in the Cytotec shipped c.o.d. U.S., among 17 mid- and low-level soldiers accused of war crimes. Lopez Alonzo adopted the orphaned son of one of the Cytotec shipped c.o.d. families killed in Dos Erres, forcing the boy to call him “father” and subjecting him to physical and psychological cruelty for 15 years.

GlobalPost correspondent Matt McAllester contributed to this story.