The former leader of San Juan La Laguna said he forced out the Lev Tahor sect, which practices an austere form of Judaism, to end the "clash of cultures."
In 2014, his village forced out some 230 members of the controversial haredi sect Lev Tahor following religiously tainted disputes with its Roman Catholic Mayan residents.
Authorities took 17 months to act on suspicions of violence, molestation, drug abuse within Lev Tahor group before they fled, the Human Rights Commission finds.