The Guatemalan civil war, which lasted from 1960-1996 [BBC timeline] resulted in more than 200,000 deaths, mostly among Guatemala's large indigenous Mayan population. According to a UN report [text, in Spanish] released in 1999, the military was responsible for 95 percent of those deaths. A Guatemalan judge ruled in May that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt will have a second genocide trial [JURIST report] for ordering a 1982 massacre which killed 201 people. In March, a former military official to was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison [JURIST report] for his role in the massacre. Earlier that month a Guatemalan judge denied amnesty [JURIST report] to Rios Montt, who was in power during the Dos Erres massacre, but denied any involvement. In February, JURIST guest columnist and Director of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission Kelsey Alford-Jones opined [JURIST op-ed] that prosecuting Rios Montt was necessary to bring justice to his victims, as well as strengthen the Guatemalan judiciary.