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Guatemalan Judge Receives Death Threats After Convicting Murderers of Bishop

HeadlineJun 13, 2001

This news from Guatemala City: A judge who convicted three soldiers and a priest of killing Roman Catholic Bishop Juan José Gerardi said he has been receiving death threats. Judge José Eduardo Cojulún headed the three-judge panel that on Friday convicted Colonel Byron Lima Estrada, Captain Byron Lima Oliva and Sergeant José Villanova and the Reverend Mario Orantes of the 1998 murder, sentencing them to 20 to 30 years in prison. Gerardi was the 75-year-old head of the Archdiocese’s Human Rights Office. He was bludgeoned to death after he had presented a report blaming the military for most of the 200,000 deaths in Guatemala.

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