Guatemala's former military leader Efrain Rios Montt, who briefly ruled the country in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91.
In 2013, he became the first former head of state to face genocide charges in his own country.

His 17 months in office were considered some of the most ruthless of the war, with entire towns of indigenous Mayans - who were accused of harbouring insurgents - wiped out.
National prosecutors said that during these 17 months in power the former leader and his chief of military intelligence ordered the deaths of more than 1,700 people from the Ixil Maya ethnic group.
He was found guilty of charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in a national court in 2013.
A judge sentenced him to 80 years, but that ruling was later thrown out by the country's high court.

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