Guatemala: ex-military officers convicted of crimes against humanity

Four former high-ranking officers convicted of 1981 rape and torture of young woman and disappearance of her teenage brother

Four former high-ranking Guatemalan military officers once considered untouchable have been convicted of crimes against humanity. They were also found guilty of aggravated sexual abuse against a young activist, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen, one of a small number of civilians who escaped army custody during the country's 36-year civil war.

Three of the officers - the former head of the armed forces, Benedicto Lucas Garcia, former intelligence chief Manuel Antonio Callejas y Callejas and local commander Hugo Ramiro Zaldana Rojas - were also found guilty of the forced disappearance of Emma's 14-year-old brother Marco Antonio and sentenced to 58 years' jail by the court for high-risk crimes in Guatemala City.