GUATEMALA CITY (AP) A Guatemalan Indian group has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, arguing that the annulment of a genocide conviction against the former dictator represents a denial of the right to justice.
The Ixil Mayans suffered the brunt of massacres under the 1982-83 rule of Efrain Rios Montt.
A group representing the Ixils presented the complaint Wednesday in Washington.
Rios Montt's trial will re-start in January 2015 in response to the Constitutional Court throwing out an earlier 80-year sentence against him for the massacre of thousands of Mayans.
The Constitutional Court said proceedings should have waited while defense appeals were resolved.