A Guatemalan court convicted a former soldier for his role in a 1982 massacre and sentenced him to more than 6,000 years in prison. Pedro Pimentel Rios is the fifth former soldier convicted of atrocities for the killing of 250 people in the village of Dos Erres during the country's civil war. Pimentel was extradited from the United States to Guatemala in July 2011. Relatives of the victims said justice was late, but it finally came. "By the grace of God I feel quite happy, because really you can see that justice is being done. ... It was an atrocity, what they did," said Ramiro Osorio, whose parents and siblings were killed in the massacre.
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Survivor: "Justice is being done. ... It was an atrocity, what they did"
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Pedro Pimentel Rios denies he was involved in the 1982 massacre at Dos Erres
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He is the fifth former soldier convicted of the killings
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Some 250 people were killed in the massacre
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