The former leader of a left-wing militant group in Guatemala has been sentenced to 90 years for his involvement in killings of government supporters.
Fermin Felipe Solano was found guilty of the killing of 22 pro-government farmers, the first time a civil war rebel leader has been convicted for crimes, reported the BBC.
The court said that Solano had ordered the killings, in the village of El Aguacate, when he was the leader of a rebel group belonging to the now extinct Revolutionary Organisation of the People in Arms (ORPA).
Previously, army officers and soldiers were convicted for human rights abuses by Guatemalan courts, with human rights groups saying that about 93% of the killings in the war were committed by the army.