FORMER Guatemalan soldiers stormed the rear area of Congress today and torched several vehicles in protest over unpaid compensation for their service during the country’s civil war from 1960 to 1996.
A crowd of hundreds of protesters, some armed with sticks, machetes and others throwing glass bottles, broke through a metal gate and forcibly entered a carpark behind the Congress building, placing chains with padlocks on several doors to prevent deputies and staff from leaving the building.
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