Guatemala trial of Rios Montt has likely collapsed: lawyers

Rios Montt was sentenced on May 10 to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity, a conviction hailed as a landmark for justice in the Central American nation where as many as 250,000 people were killed in a 1960-1996 civil war.
Rios Montt, now 86, took power after a coup in 1982 and was accused of implementing a scorched-earth policy in which government troops massacred thousands of indigenous villagers thought to be helping leftist rebels.
Guatemala's Constitutional Court ordered on Monday that proceedings be voided back to April 19, when a jurisdictional dispute broke out between judges and several appeals were lodged with the court over alleged irregularities in the case.
If the court process is written off, the retired general would have to be tried by a new set of judges. The case is now mired in a tangle of red tape.

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