Pimentel Rios: GUATEMALA CITY

Guatemalan Military Dept: GUATEMALA CITY - 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, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The sentence was 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 and pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force known as the "kaibiles," leaves the court during a recess of his trial in Guatemala City, Monday March 12, 2012. Pimentel is suspected of helping carry out a massacre at the village of Dos Erres in 1982 that left more than 150 people dead in the Central American nation. AP Photo/Moises Castillo 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.