Guatemala Massacre: Year Sentence and Canadian Citizenship

guatemala massacre: He's one of four former soldiers arrested by U.S. authorities in 2010 on allegations of participating in the killing of more than 200 people in the village of Las Dos Erres, according to CBC. Jorge Sosa guilty of lying about 1982 Guatemala massacre Accused Guatemalan war criminal extradited Sosa, 59, is now serving a 10-year sentence for immigration fraud in the United States, where he also held citizenship until it was revoked in 2014. The federal government said in newly filed court documents that Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes concealed his role in a 1982 massacre by the Guatemalan military when he obtained Canadian citizenship a decade later. Canada has opted to strip citizenship in only a handful of modern-day war crimes cases. He left Guatemala in 1985 and sought asylum in the United States, claiming he was fleeing guerrillas. Sosa was arrested in Lethbridge, Alta., in 2011 and extradited to California, where he stood trial for lying about the massacre on his naturalization forms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.