GUATEMALA CITY (AP)-a judge ordered that the former President of Guatemala Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores were taken to a military hospital on Tuesday for an examination to determine whether he is fit to face trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
Attorney spokesman Manuel Vasquez said Mejia Victores were under sedation when the judge in the case went to his apartment to perform the initial trial.
The former President’s lawyers have said he was unable to appear in court because he suffered a stroke. But when the judges went to his apartment on Tuesday Mejia Victores also doesn’t seem to be able to participate in the hearing. He was in his 80s.
Mejia Victores was President of Guatemala from 1983 to 1986, and prior to that he served as General and Minister of Defense at the height of the Central American country’s 1960-1996 civil war.
He is accused of overseeing a series of massacres in the villages of India are suspected of supporting leftist guerrillas.