Dictator lives to fight another day

Guatemala's top court has thrown out the conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity of former military leader Efrain Rios Montt. The constitutional court ruled that the trial should restart from the point where it stood on 19 April. On 10 May, Gen Rios Montt was convicted of ordering the deaths of 1,771 people of the Ixil Maya ethnic group during his time in office in 1982-83. They shouldn't just restart a trial like that, because what Rios Montt did is genocide and he should be executed for his part in the atrocities. You can't just order the ethnic cleansing of a minority group and expect to get away with it. It has already taken the courts 30 years to punish the wrongdoers, so why should it take any longer?