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"...Guatemala apologized Monday for the government-directed massacre of 226 people in a highland village....
Vice President Eduardo Stein traveled via helicopter to Plan de Sanchez, 95 miles north of the capital, Guatemala City, to formally accept government responsibility for the killings...on July 18, 1982.
The government was ordered to apologize by the Inter-American Human Rights Court, which also decreed that the state pay survivors and relatives $7.9 million in damages....
...Soldiers...in search of leftist guerrillas....forced groups...into homes which they set ablaze or pelted with grenades.
...The Plan de Sanchez killings took place during the 18-month dictatorship of Efrain Rios Montt....
Stein...called the court ruling historic.
``The people want moments that commemorate their victims,'' he said. ``But, more than anything, they don't want what happened to keep being denied officially.''