Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has been taken to a private psychiatric facility for tests to determine whether or not he is fit for trial. His lawyers had fought his transfer to a public hospital, alleging that it lacked proper security. Rios Montt is accused of ordering the Army to massacre thousands of indigenous people in northern Guatemala from 1982 to 1983. He will be submitted to 11 days of tests after a medical examiner’s report last month found him incompetent to stand trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. teleSUR
