Jorge Sosa Orantes: Guatemala

Federal Authorities Dept: Jorge Sosa Orantes was turned over Friday by officials in Canada, where he had been in custody since last year on U.S. charges of lying about his role in Guatemala's war when he applied for American citizenship in 2008, federal authorities said, according to CTV. According to a 2009 federal grand jury indictment, Sosa and dozens of other soldiers stormed the village of Dos Erres in 1982 and allegedly killed men, women and children as they search for missing weapons. Soldiers bludgeoned villagers with a sledgehammer, threw them into a well, and raped women and girls before killing them, court papers said. More than 150 people died and lOS ANGELES -- A former Guatemalan soldier accused of taking part in a massacre during that country's civil war more than a quarter century ago has been extradited to California where he faces immigration fraud charges. Sosa was a member of a Guatemalan military unit known as the kaibiles and helped command a unit assigned to track down suspected guerrillas who had stolen military weapons, according to court documents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.