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- ~ ~ - ~ JUATE~ALA HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MYRNA MAC K CASE Torsten Wiesel and Carol Corillon, Editors COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington, D.C. www.nap.edu
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~ - Comm~dee on Human Rights 2002-2003 TORSTEN WIESEL*, Chair, Rockefeller University, New York SIDNEY ALTMAN*, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut MrNA J. BISSELL, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Labo- ratory, Berkeley, California ROBERT CURL*, Depa~ lenient of Chemistry, Rice University, Hous- ton, Texas FELTON EARLS, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massa- chusetts FAROUK EL-BAz, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Massachusetts SARAH B. HRDY, Department of Anthropology, University of Cali- forn~a, Dans YUET WA! KAN, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Medi- cine, University of California, San Francisco HAROLD A. MooNEY, Deparunent of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California KATEPALLI R. SREENIVASAN, Mason Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut CHARLES TOWNES*, Department of Physics, University of Califor- nia, Berkeley SALK I. WAKIL, Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas MARY JANE WEsT-EsERHARD, Smithsonian Tropical Research ~sti- tute, University of Costa Rica, Ciudad Un~versitaria CAROL COR~LON, Director PATRICIA EVERS, Program Officer FRANCISCA BOATENG, Program Associate MONIQUE THOMAS, Senior Program Assistant *Nobel Laureate v
Contents INTRODUCTION The Committee and the Myrna Mack Case, CHR Missions to Guatemala, 4 REPORT OF THE 2002 MISSION Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Morton Panish The Trial, 7 Political Context, 16 CONCLUSIONS APPENDIXES A. Committee on Human Rights Description, 23 . B. "Justice Against All Odds," Rachel Garst, 27 Meetings arid Events Attended by Mission Delegates, 37 D. Death Threat, 41 -- E. Statement by the Myrna Mack Foundation, 43 . . V11 7 21