Pedro Pimentel Rios: Special Forces

Pimentel Rios Dept: Pedro Pimentel Rios was the fifth former special forces soldier sentenced to 6,060 years or more for what became known as the Dos Erres massacre after the northern Guatemala hamlet where the killings occurred during the country's 1960-1996 civil war, according to CBC. Pimentel Rios, 54, is a former instructor at a Guatemalan training school for an elite military force known as the "kaibiles." A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison Monday for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 massacre. The sentence handed down by a three-judge panel is largely symbolic since under Guatemalan law the maximum time a convict can serve is 50 years. It specified 30 years for each of the 201 deaths, plus 30 years for crimes against humanity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.