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GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan police Friday arrested a former military chief of staff in the mass killing of government opponents during the country’s 36-year civil war, the highest- ranking official yet detained for massacres in the 1980s.

Retired Gen. Hector Mario Lopez, 81, was allegedly involved in about 200 massacres committed while he was chief of staff of the Guatemalan military between 1982 and 1983, officials said.

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