The recent trial and conviction, in a national court, of former Guatemalan President General Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is only the latest blow against the impunity that previously protected high officials responsible for atrocities. Though the conviction has since been overturned by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, Ríos Montt joins dozens of former heads of state and government leaders who have been prosecuted for gross abuses of human rights since the ICTY was established.
最近，在国民法庭上，前危地马拉总统蒙特将军（General Efraín Ríos Montt）被控种族灭绝和反人类罪并被判罪名成立，这只是对从前免受暴行罪行惩罚的高官的严重打击的最新例子。尽管此后审判被危地马拉宪法法院推翻，但蒙特成为ICTY成立以来有一位因肆意侵犯人权而被起诉的又一名国家和政府领导人，他们的队伍已经扩大到了几十人。