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From page 3... ... The report implicated military intelligence officers and identified Beteta as a suspect. Jose Merida was murdered under mysterious circumstances on August 5, 1991.4 As early as 1992, almost a dozen different judges had played a role in the case, and several used procedural maneuvers to excuse themselves from ruling on the case, presumably out of fear for their personal 4Jose Merida was shot and killed in the parking lot of the police headquarters in Guatemala City shortly before he was scheduled to give testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. Read the entire page →
From page 4... ... Edgar Augusto Godoy Gaitan, Colonel Juan Valencia Osorio, and Lieutenant Colonel Juan Guillermo Oliva CarreraS and others were responsible for Myrna's death. In the early 1990s she was unable to convince the Guatemalan judiciary to prosecute Beteta's superior officers at the Presidential High Command, but in 1994 the Supreme Court considered an appeal by Helen Mack an agreed that the evidence available indicated that Beteta had likely acted under orders. Read the entire page →
From page 5... ... It said that "with judges and other law enforcement officials subject to intimidation, corruption, and inadequate resources, the judicial system was often unable to ensure fair trials," and that "politically motivated killings continued with disturbing frequency." Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman recorded 173 cases of possible extrajudicial killings in 1996. Of the nine accords agreed on by the Guatemalan government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (the former guerrilla group now integrated into the political arena) Read the entire page →
From page 6... ... A broad spectrum of Guatemalans at home and abroad know of the Mack case, follow its developments, and await a final ruling. The case also has attracted the interest of the United Nations, diverse foreign governments, the international scientific community, human rights organizations, and private individuals worldwide who face similar challenges in establishing and shaping the rule of law in countries beset by internal conflict or impunity of the armed forces. Read the entire page →
From page 7... ... archival information relating to egregious human rights cases in Guatemala and Honduras, specifically, and Latin American and Caribbean countries in general. According to Pedro Miguel Lamport Kelsall, Guatemala's ambassador to Washington, there is no comparable initiative in Guatemala's National Congress or any government agency advocating the release of classified documents by Guatemala's Ministry of Defense or the Presidential High Command. Read the entire page →

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... The report implicated military intelligence officers and identified Beteta as a suspect. Jose Merida was murdered under mysterious circumstances on August 5, 1991.4 As early as 1992, almost a dozen different judges had played a role in the case, and several used procedural maneuvers to excuse themselves from ruling on the case, presumably out of fear for their personal 4Jose Merida was shot and killed in the parking lot of the police headquarters in Guatemala City shortly before he was scheduled to give testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.

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... Edgar Augusto Godoy Gaitan, Colonel Juan Valencia Osorio, and Lieutenant Colonel Juan Guillermo Oliva CarreraS and others were responsible for Myrna's death. In the early 1990s she was unable to convince the Guatemalan judiciary to prosecute Beteta's superior officers at the Presidential High Command, but in 1994 the Supreme Court considered an appeal by Helen Mack an agreed that the evidence available indicated that Beteta had likely acted under orders.

Read the entire page →

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... It said that "with judges and other law enforcement officials subject to intimidation, corruption, and inadequate resources, the judicial system was often unable to ensure fair trials," and that "politically motivated killings continued with disturbing frequency." Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman recorded 173 cases of possible extrajudicial killings in 1996. Of the nine accords agreed on by the Guatemalan government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (the former guerrilla group now integrated into the political arena)

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... A broad spectrum of Guatemalans at home and abroad know of the Mack case, follow its developments, and await a final ruling. The case also has attracted the interest of the United Nations, diverse foreign governments, the international scientific community, human rights organizations, and private individuals worldwide who face similar challenges in establishing and shaping the rule of law in countries beset by internal conflict or impunity of the armed forces.

Read the entire page →

From page 7...

... archival information relating to egregious human rights cases in Guatemala and Honduras, specifically, and Latin American and Caribbean countries in general. According to Pedro Miguel Lamport Kelsall, Guatemala's ambassador to Washington, there is no comparable initiative in Guatemala's National Congress or any government agency advocating the release of classified documents by Guatemala's Ministry of Defense or the Presidential High Command.

Read the entire page →

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