The Gerardi trial, supposed to start last week after many delays, has been postponed again.

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Gerardi's assistant, Reverend Mario Orantes, was found guilty of acting as an accomplice, and the bishop's cook.

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Bishop Gerardi, then a campaigner for the country's many indigenous people, received death threats and had to flee into exile.

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He has vowed to pick up where Bishop Gerardi left off.

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Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi was murdered last year just after the Roman Catholic church's human-rights group that he headed had issued its account of the killings.

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In June 2001, the same court in Guatemala City sentenced three soldiers and a priest to lengthy prison terms for their roles in the assassination of Bishop Juan Gerardi.

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But perhaps the most damning indictment of the weakness of Guatemala's democratic institutions is the unsolved murder of Juan Gerardi, a Catholic bishop who headed the church's Recovery of Historical Memory project, an investigation into who had killed whom during the war.

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