Madrid - Spain's High Court yesterday denied a request by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu to investigate three former Guatemelan dictators on genocide allegations, saying the case could be tried in Guatemala.
It was a major setback to the Maya Indian leader's efforts to prosecute Guatemala's former military rulers for their role in the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, which killed 200,000 people, mostly Indians, before ending in 1996.