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Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case (2003)

Chapter: Appendix D: Death Threat

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Death Threat." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2003. Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10691.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Death Threat." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2003. Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10691.
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42 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MACK CASK !!!!!!!!! TO THE ENEMIES OF THE NATION !!!!!!!! IN RECENT MONTHS THE PSEUDO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR SYMPATHIZERS H AVE D EDICATED T HEMSELVES T O D ENIGRAT[NG THE IMAGE O F OUR COUNTRY AND THE TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY OVER COMMUNISM, WON WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR HEROIC SOLDIERS. THESE GROUPS ARE LED BY FIGURES WHOSE PERSONAL AMBITIONS ARE PUT ABOVE THE INTERESTS OF THE NATION. THIS BECAME CLEAR WITH THE VISIT TO THE COUNTRY OF JINA JILANI [U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders] WHOSE FEET THEY KISSED AND WHO THEY LET WALK ALL OVER THEM. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE PUBLIC MINISTRY RECORDS A MASS OF 200 COMPLAINTS AND NONE OF THEM CAN BE PROVEN? THEY ARE LIES AND INVENTIONS TO GAIN FAME AND GET INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO GIVE THEM THE FUNDS THAT HAVE RUN OUT, BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF JUSTIFICATION FOR THEIR ACTIVITIES IN THE COUNTRY. THESE DAMNED PEOPLE ARE A DRAG ON SOCIETY, THEY ARE PARASITES O F HUMAN RIGHTS WHO S HOULD B E WIPED O UT LIKE YOU WOULD GET RID OF A CANCER THE LIES THAT THEY TOLD AND THE FARCE ABOUT THREATS MADE OUR COUNTRY LOOK LIKE SHIT IN THE MUD. BECAUSE OF THIS, TO THEM AND THEIR SUPPORTERS AND THE STINKING PRESS THAT PUBLISHES THIS BABY STUFF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH, WE WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE YOUR LIES AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO TALK B.S., NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO SAY SO. NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE HAVE PREVENTED THE GROI 1P RUN BY CAPTAIN NOVA IN THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE FROM ACTING, THESE DAMNED PEOPLE NEVER LEARN. NOW HE AND HIS BUDDIES WILL HAVE TO TAKE AIM. THE LIST OF THE ENEMIES OF THE NATION IS GREAT, AND IF THE LIES THAT THEY TOLD THAT OLD LADY JILANI HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE COUNTRY THE SQUEALERS SHOULD PAY FOR IT WITH THEIR BLOOD. THE FIRST TO TASTE THE STEEL OF OUR BULLETS WILL BE: CLARA ARENAS, MIGUEL ANGEL ALBIZUREZ, MIGUEL ANGEL SANDOVAL, NERY RODENAS, FRANK LARUE, MARIO POLANCO, ABNER GUOZ, MARIELOS MONZON, RONALDO ROBLES, ROSA MARIA BOLANOS, THAT DAMN CHINESE WOMAN HELEN MACK ... THE LIST GOES ON. THE WARNINGS ARE OVER, NOW WE ARE REALLY GOING TO ACT SO THESE TRAITORS TO OUR COUNTRY HAVE SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT - WE'LL SEE IF IT IS TRUE - SO MUCH PARTING JUST TO SHIT WATER. ! ! ! ! ! ! AN ACTIVIST SEEN IS A DEAD ACTIVIST ! ! ! ! ! ! TRUE GUATEMALANS . ..0 [The list of names includes AVANCSO director Clara Arenas, Helen Mack (sister of Myma Mack), functionaries of the Catholic Archbishop's human rights office, labor leaders and others.] Translation by M.J. West-Eberhard 5

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Two members of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR), NAS member Mary Jane West-Eberhard and NAS/NAE member Morton Panish, undertook a mission to Guatemala to observe the trial of two high-level Guatemalan military officials who were charged with ordering the murder of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack. She was stabbed to death in 1990, two days after a report for which she was principal researcher, "Assistance and Control: Policies Toward Internally Displaced Populations in Guatemala," was published by the Georgetown University Press. Ms. Mack had been doing research on and writing about the unjust treatment of the internally displaced people in Guatemala. Thirteen years after Ms. Mack's murder—after the case had gone through dozens of courts and countless delays—a general and colonel in the Guatemalan military intelligence apparatus were brought to trial, and one was convicted. This marked the first time in Guatemalan history that a high-level military official had been brought to justice for atrocities he committed during Guatemala's 30-year civil war. This report summarizes the one-month trial proceedings.

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