Santos López Alonzo

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Santos López Alonzo (* 1951 or 1952) is a former soldier in the Guatemalan Kaibiles Special Unit.

During the Guatemalan Civil War in 1982, he and his unit were involved in the Dos Erres massacre , in which 171 villagers were killed, and kidnapped and forcibly adopted the surviving boy Ramiro Antonio Osorio Cristales . It was not until 1999 that the criminal prosecution court in Petén ordered the search for him in connection with the massacre. In 2010, Alonzo was arrested in the US for illegally re-entering the country and ignoring his earlier deportation. In August 2016 he was extradited to Guatemala . In the same month, the preliminary proceedings were started to consider whether the charges could be admitted. The lawsuit was upheld in June 2017. The main proceedings should have started on August 20, 2018, but were initially postponed to 2021. Lopez's defense attorney had challenged the decision to postpone the postponement at the Guatemalan Supreme Court and had the new date for the start of the main hearing be October 1, 2018. Lopez was sentenced on November 21, 2018 to 30 years in prison for crimes against humanity and an additional 30 years for each victim killed in the massacre - a total of 5,160 years. However, this sentence is more symbolic, because the maximum prison term in Guatemala is 50 years and Lopez would then be 116 years old.

In 2011 four perpetrators involved had already been sentenced to 6,060 years in prison each and in 2012 a fifth member.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Las Dos Erres” Massacre v. Guatemala . In: Loy. LA Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. Band 36 , no. 1857 , 2014, p. 1863 ( lls.edu [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Jo-Marie Burt, Paulo Estrada: Dos Erres Massacre Trial Postponed from August 2018 to May 2021. August 23, 2018, accessed on December 7, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ Jo-Marie Burt, Paulo Estrada: Dos Erres Massacre Trial Starts Today. October 1, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  4. ^ Santos López Alonzo (Guatemala). Background. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ex-soldier sentenced to 5,160 years in prison. In: sueddeutsche.de. November 22, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  6. ^ Toni Keppeler: Justice in Guatemala: 6,060 years imprisonment for soldiers. In: taz.de. August 3, 2011, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Guatemala: Ex-soldier sentenced to 6,060 years in prison In: orf.at , March 13, 2012, accessed on December 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME López Alonzo, Santos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan Kaibiles Special Forces soldier
DATE OF BIRTH 1951 or 1952