GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Ragged squaddies who are stressful they be paid a battle-time bonus for serving in Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil battle burst onto the grounds of the nation’s congress constructing Tuesday and living quite loads of autos on fire.
The protesters broke down gates main into the constructing’s automobile parking pickle and torched at least three autos. A few of the demonstrators interestingly carried machetes, and a few congress workers fled over a rooftop to flee.
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CAPTAN MOMENTO en que manifestante agrede a empleado del Congreso y su acompañante del área de protocolo y luego este reacciona y se defiende. pic.twitter.com/ZlDfqbNqs7
— Vinicio Fuentes (@VinicioTVGT) October 20, 2021
Legislator Carlos Barreda wrote on his Twitter account that some of his colleagues had been trapped within the constructing. One other legislator, Luis Fernando Pineda, wrote that the ex-squaddies living fire to places of work adjoining the auto parking pickle.
Infantrymen come what could confirmed as much as drive the protesters out. The civil battle pitted the military and police in opposition to leftist rebels. It ended with the signing of peace accords in 1996.
The mature squaddies are stressful a bonus of about $16,000 for having served in the civil battle, in which at least 200,000 folks, most of them civilians, died.
The U.S.-backed army changed into accountable for many of the deaths, in accordance with findings of an fair truth price living as much as analyze the bloodshed.
