"He knew about everything," Elfman said.
"Until I left, the Americans knew about everything I did; they knew what was going on in the interrogations and they knew the detainees.
She knew about everything my father did — I often heard them arguing about his carryings-on — but, for all her strength, she was never able to stop him and never able to walk away.
In delivering the verdict by the three-judge tribunal, Presiding Judge Yassmin Barrios said "he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out".
He knew about everything — orchids, the paintings of Emil Nolde, medicine and astronomy — not in the showy, keeping-score, intellectual résumé-building of today, but just because he wanted to know.
As de facto head of state, she said, General Ríos Montt knew about everything that was going on and did nothing to stop it, despite having the authority to do so.Sceptics claim that the trial was rushed, and that the verdict ignored the context of the crimes.
