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21.05.2013 Efrain Rios Montt Guatemala Guatemala On trial

Efrain Rios Montt was born on 16 June 1926. He began his military career in 1946 as a cadet and was made general in 1972. Between 1970 and 1974 he was chief of the Guatemalan army. In 1974 he was elected president as a candidate of the Christian Democratic Party, but the candidate of the armed...

21.05.2013 José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez Guatemala Guatemala On trial

José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez was born in 1946 in Guatemala. He served as Director of Military Intelligence (G-2) between April 1982 and April 1983 under the de facto government of Efrain Rios Montt. In his role as director of the G-2, he served directly under Army Chief of Staff Hector Mario...

17.05.2013 Jorge Rafael Videla Argentina Germany, Argentina Sentenced

Jorge Rafael Videla was born in Mercedes, Argentina on 2 August 1925. He is the son of an army Coronel. He graduated from the National Military College in 1994 and began what would become a long military career. He worked for the Ministry of Defence from 1950 to 1962 when he became...

15.05.2013 Adolf Storms Nazi Germany Germany Died before end of trial

Adolf Storms was born in 1919. During World War II, he was a sergeant of the 5th SS Division "Wiking", a division of the Waffen SS, which had participated in the war of aggression against the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1944. The division's fallback led it from Hungary to the Czech...

15.05.2013 Aleksandras Lileikis Lithuania Lithuania Died before end of trial

Aleksandras Lileikis was born in Lithuania on 10 June 1907 into a poor farmer family. During his schooldays, he lived off of temporary work. In 1927, he began to study law at the university in Kaunas. He took up employment with the State Security Department to pay for his education....

15.05.2013 Antanas Gudelis Lithuania Lithuania Indicted

Antanas Gudelis was born in Lithuania in 1912.

He allegedly commanded a Nazi collaborating military unit, which allegedly shot a number of civilians in the Lithuanian town of Kupiskis on three occasions. Between June and August 1941 prisoners of the Kupiskis jail, mainly Jews and...

15.05.2013 Rubén Alcides Codina Argentina Argentina Sentenced

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