GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Congress approved a non-binding resolution that denies there was any attempt to commit genocide during the bloody 36-year civil war, while calling for “national reconciliation” in the Central American country.
“It is legally impossible … that genocide could have occurred in our country’s territory during the armed conflict,” said the resolution, which passed late Tuesday with support from 87 of the 158 legislators.
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