内容摘要：Lee accused the conservatives of distorting his remarks, saying he was simply explaining how he had helped vendors operate in a better environment.

Lee accused the conservatives of distorting his remarks, saying he was simply explaining how he had helped vendors operate in a better environment.

Guatemala’s civil war pitted the army and police against leftist rebels. It ended with the signing of peace accords in 1996.Of the 36 women who originally came forward, seven have died. The youngest was 19 when she was attacked.

Among the women who testified at this trial, was Pedrina Ixpatá. She is 63 now, but was 21 when she said she was assaulted. Félix Tum Ramírez, one of those convicted, had pointed her out to soldiers earlier in the day in the plaza.“At 9 at night they came to take me (from the house) and took me to a big water tank. They pushed by head in the tank and when I was about to drown, let me out and asked me questions, but I said I didn’t know anything,” Ixpatá said.Later, she was taken to a room on the local military base where she said soldiers raped her. “I couldn’t take it. My whole body hurt,” Ixtapá said. She got pregnant, aborted and wasn’t able to have children. Tum Ramírez was convicted of raping two women and for signaling four women to be raped by others.

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Ixpatá has done.One of the accused, Pedro Sánchez, told the court Friday before the ruling was handed down that he was not involved. He was convicted of raping two women.

“I am innocent of what they are accusing us, I don’t know any of these women,” Sánchez testified before the verdict. Simeón Enríquez Gómez, the third paramilitary, was also convicted of raping two of the women.

Anthropologist Aura Cumes, who testified as a forensic expert during the trial, said women suffered differently in the war than men did.after the country confirmed its

, authorities said Saturday.On Friday, Brazil’s Agriculture and Livestock ministry said China and the European Union had halted poultry imports from Brazil.

Mexico’s National Service for Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety and Quality said in a statement Saturday that it suspended temporarily the import of chicken meat, fertile eggs, live birds and other poultry products from Brazil as a precautionary measure.Chile and Uruguay have also halted poultry imports, Luis Rua, secretary of international trade at Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, told local news service Broadcast Agro.