Judge revokes citizenship of Guatemalan who helped lead massacre of 200-person village

OTTAWA — A federal judge took the exceptional step of revoking a Canadian man’s citizenship after it was discovered that he helped lead a Guatemalan military unit that committed unspeakable monstrosities and massacred a village of 200 in Guatemala over 40 years ago.

In a decision published Thursday, Federal Court Justice Roger Lafrenière put an end to a nearly nine year legal saga by revoking the 34-year-old citizenship of Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes and declaring him inadmissible to the country.