On 26 April 1998 Bishop Juan Gerardi was assassinated , two days after publishing his report Guatemala : Never Again , where he presented evidence forty years of repression in that country : 200,000 Indians killed and one million exiled . Nine out of ten victims were unarmed , mostly indigenous , civilians . More than 90 % of the crimes had been the responsibility of the Guatemalan State . Mario Enrique Ríos Montt took over in this year his duties in the Office of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Guatemala ( ODHA ) and became an influential and powerful opponent of his brother
Guatemala : Never Again
Guatemalan genocide
Mario Enrique Ríos Montt