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		</div><p>Former soldiers who are demanding a bonus for serving in Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war have burst on to the grounds of the country’s congress building and set several vehicles on fire.</p>
<p>The protesters broke down gates leading to the building’s car park and torched at least three vehicles.</p>
<p>Some of the demonstrators apparently carried machetes, and some congress employees fled over a rooftop to escape.</p>
<p>Legislator Carlos Barreda wrote on his Twitter account that some of his colleagues were trapped inside the building.</p>
<p>Another legislator, Luis Fernando Pineda, wrote that the ex-soldiers set fire to offices adjoining the car park.</p>
<p>Soldiers eventually showed up to force the protesters out. The civil war pitted the army and police against leftist rebels. It ended with the signing of peace accords in 1996.</p>
<p>The former soldiers are demanding a bonus of about 16,000 dollars (£11,600) for having served in the civil war, in which at least 200,000 people, most of them civilians, died.</p>
<p>The US-backed army was responsible for most of the deaths, according to the findings of an independent truth commission set up to investigate the bloodshed.</p>
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