Former Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt to face genocide charges for 1980s abuses

[Peter Lemkin]

Great article and point by Parry, but reports such as: "One CIA report in February 1982 described an army sweep through the so-called Ixil Triangle in central El Quiche province. "The commanding officers of the units involved have been instructed to destroy all towns and villages which are cooperating with the Guerrilla Army of the Poor [the EGP] and eliminate all sources of resistance," the report said. "Since the operation began, several villages have been burned to the ground, and a large number of guerrillas and collaborators have been killed." were routine in Vietnam describing American forces alone - and many, many other places we have operated before and since. America was one of the very last nations to sign the Convention on Genocide Treaty at the United Nations - I know - my uncle Raphael Lemkin wrote it, and my father and he [and a small troop of others] spent many years and much energy talking to Senators and others, trying to get it passed by the Congress. Of all the major nations we were the last to sign and almost the last nation of any description of size/stature. I can name a number of other Presidents, Advisers, Cabinet Members, Congresspersons, and tons of Officers up to top US Generals who deserve their own little 'Nuremberg Trials'......not just Ray-Gun, but, yes, him too.