Army Officers Seek Amnesty in Slaying
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Three high-ranking army officers accused of ordering the 1990 assassination of sociologist Myrna Mack sought amnesty under a controversial portion of the Dec. 29 peace treaty that ended more than three decades of civil war. Soldier Noel de Jesus Beteta got 30 years for the crime--the first time a member of the Guatemalan armed forces was convicted in a human rights case. Gen. Edgar Augusto Godoy and Cols. Juan Valencia Osorio and Juan Guillermo Oliva, accused of ordering the slaying, are seeking amnesty under the political crimes provisions of the treaty.
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