The past has come calling for two ex-military officers in Guatemala.
They have gone on trial over human rights abuses against indigenous women during the country’s long armed conflict.
Francisco Reyes and Heriberto Valdez are accused of allowing the rape and abuse of 11 women at the Sepur Zarco military base in the 1980s. Both have denied any wrongdoing.
The surviving women, now in their seventies and eighties, testified that the soldiers raped them and burned their houses down after their husbands were killed.
The women said they were then forced to report to the military base in Sepur Zarco in rotating shifts every three days, to cook and clean for the soldiers.
The shifts lasted 10 months between 1982 and 1983, a period during which the women say they continued to be raped. Some women were reportedly held on bondage for six years, until the military base closed in 1988.
The UN says rape was used as a weapon of war by the Guatemalan military. Such an offence has never before been tried in the country where the crimes occurred.