Genocide on trial
Indigenous women from Guatemala's Ixil region attend the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who was found guilty on May 10 of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
Indigenous women from Guatemala's Ixil region attend the 20th day of the trial against Rios Montt, who has now become the first former head of state to have been found guilty of genocide in his or her own country.
An indigenous woman stands with her face covered as she testifies in the trial.
Rios Montt covers his face in court. For years he was not prosecuted for alleged atrocities committed during his 1982-1983 rule because of his protected status as a congressman.
A woman testifies during the proceedings, which came after Montt retired last year and was ordered to face trial by a judge who found sufficient evidence linking him to the killing of more than 1,700 indigenous people.
Cesar Calderon (right), a lawyer for Rios Montt (left), speaks during the genocide trial.
An indigenous woman from the Ixil region attends the 16th day of the trial.
Rios Montt's intelligence director, Jose Rodriguez Sanchez, speaks during the last session of Rios Montt's genocide trial. Sanchez also stood trial but was acquitted on both charges.
Indigenous women of the Ixil region listen to the court proceedings.
Rios Montt sits alone at his table in court after a session in the trial ended abruptly, when the former dictator's lawyers tried to suspend proceedings over a legal technicality and stormed out.
Kate Doyle, director of the National Security Archive's Guatemala Documentation Project and Evidence Project, who made public Guatemalan army documents describing the massacres of the early 1980s, attends a hearing at the trial.
Rios Montt reacts as he is surrounded by members of the media after being sentenced on genocide charges at the Supreme Court.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu speaks to the media before the start of the first session of Montt's trial. After Montt was convicted of genocide, she said: "Today we are happy, because for many years it was said that genocide was a lie, but today the court said it was true."
A woman dressed as Lady Justice protests at the entrance of the Supreme Court before Rios Montt's hearing.
A quilt showing the names of victims of the internal armed conflict of the 1980s is seen outside the Constitutional Court.
