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Judge approves bid to revoke Canadian citizenship over man’s hidden role in massacre
Justice Roger Lafrenière ruled Sosa obtained citizenship by fraud and participated in the 1982 Las Dos Erres massacre, prompting Canada's revocation of his citizenship.
- In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court approved the federal government of Canada's bid to revoke Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes's Canadian citizenship, finding he obtained it by fraud after court action began in 2017.
- Sosa, 67, was a senior member of Guatemalan military special forces that led a December 1982 mission to Las Dos Erres, Guatemala, where soldiers beat villagers and were ordered to kill everyone.
- The ruling details that soldiers brought infants, women, and children to a dry water well, where a two- or three-month-old baby was thrown alive, and Mr. Sosa fired into the well to silence a man and threw a grenade while persons remained alive.
- After fleeing to California in 1985, Sosa was denied U.S. asylum, gained refugee status, permanent resident and Canadian citizenship, then was arrested in Lethbridge, Alberta, with the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ordering his extradition to the United States.
- Sosa did not attend the Federal Court trial and claimed he was not in Las Dos Erres, but the judge rejected this, citing documentary and oral evidence and the federal government’s nondisclosure argument.
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Judge approves bid to revoke Canadian citizenship over man’s hidden role in massacre
OTTAWA - A judge has approved a federal bid to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a former member of the Guatemalan military who took part in the murder of villagers.
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